Side-by-side, with the numbers that matter.
Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.
Rig A
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
NVIDIA · gpu
Change
- 1X Neo
- Agility Robotics Digit
- Alibaba Qwen3-72B-Instruct (Q4 quant)
- AMD Instinct MI300X
- AMD Instinct MI325X
- AMD Instinct MI355X
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7
- Apple Mac Pro (M2 Ultra, 2023)
- Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)
- Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024)
- Apptronik Apollo
- Aurora
- AWS Trainium2
- Boston Dynamics Atlas
- Boston Dynamics Spot
- Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 3
- El Capitan
- Figure 02
- Frontier (OLCF-5)
- Google Cloud TPU v5p
- Groq Language Processing Unit
- Intel Gaudi 3 HL-325L
- MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid
- NVIDIA B100
- NVIDIA B200
- NVIDIA DGX B200
- NVIDIA DGX H200
- NVIDIA DGX Spark
- NVIDIA Eos DGX SuperPOD
- NVIDIA GB200
- NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper
- NVIDIA H100
- NVIDIA H200
- NVIDIA HGX B200
- NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
- OpenAI GPT-5 Core
- SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- Sanctuary AI Phoenix
- Tesla Optimus
- The Stargate Project
- Unitree B2
- Unitree G1
- Unitree H1
Rig B
NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
NVIDIA · workstation
Change
- 1X Neo
- Agility Robotics Digit
- Alibaba Qwen3-72B-Instruct (Q4 quant)
- AMD Instinct MI300X
- AMD Instinct MI325X
- AMD Instinct MI355X
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7
- Apple Mac Pro (M2 Ultra, 2023)
- Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)
- Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024)
- Apptronik Apollo
- Aurora
- AWS Trainium2
- Boston Dynamics Atlas
- Boston Dynamics Spot
- Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 3
- El Capitan
- Figure 02
- Frontier (OLCF-5)
- Google Cloud TPU v5p
- Groq Language Processing Unit
- Intel Gaudi 3 HL-325L
- MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid
- NVIDIA B100
- NVIDIA B200
- NVIDIA DGX B200
- NVIDIA DGX H200
- NVIDIA DGX Spark
- NVIDIA Eos DGX SuperPOD
- NVIDIA GB200
- NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper
- NVIDIA H100
- NVIDIA H200
- NVIDIA HGX B200
- NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
- OpenAI GPT-5 Core
- SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- Sanctuary AI Phoenix
- Tesla Optimus
- The Stargate Project
- Unitree B2
- Unitree G1
- Unitree H1
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⇄ swap sidesNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders EditionNVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
AI Tops
3,352
1,687
Bandwidth GB S
1,792
896
Cuda Cores
21,760
10,496
Displayport Count
3
4
Memory BUS Bits
512
256
Nvdec Count
2
2
Nvdec GEN
6
6
Nvenc Count
3
2
Nvenc GEN
9
9
Pcie GEN
5
5
RT Cores GEN
4
4
Slot Width
2
2
TDP (W)
575
200
Tensor Cores GEN
5
5
VRAM (GB)
32
32
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition | NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell |
|---|---|---|
| AI Tops | 3,352 | 1,687 |
| Bandwidth GB S | 1,792 | 896 |
| Cuda Cores | 21,760 | 10,496 |
| Displayport Count | 3 | 4 |
| Memory BUS Bits | 512 | 256 |
| Nvdec Count | 2 | 2 |
| Nvdec GEN | 6 | 6 |
| Nvenc Count | 3 | 2 |
| Nvenc GEN | 9 | 9 |
| Pcie GEN | 5 | 5 |
| RT Cores GEN | 4 | 4 |
| Slot Width | 2 | 2 |
| TDP (W)↓ better | 575 | 200 |
| Tensor Cores GEN | 5 | 5 |
| VRAM (GB) | 32 | 32 |
| Base Clock GHZ | 2.01 | — |
| Boost Clock GHZ | 2.41 | — |
| Displayport Version | 2.1b | 2.1b |
| ECC | — | true |
| Form factor | — | 4.4 in H x 10.5 in L, dual slot |
| Hdmi Count | 1 | — |
| Hdmi Version | 2.1b | — |
| Length MM | 304 | — |
| MSRP (USD)↓ better | 1,999 | — |
| Required PSU Watts | 1,000 | — |
| RT Core Tflops | 318 | — |
| RT Cores | — | 82 |
| Tensor Cores | — | 328 |
| Vram Type | GDDR7 | GDDR7 ECC |
| Width MM | 137 | — |