NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

  • Around 14% higher texture fill rate: 442.3 GTexel/s vs 386.3 GTexel/s
  • Around 31% higher pipelines: 9728 vs 7424
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 12 GB
Texture fill rate 442.3 GTexel/s vs 386.3 GTexel/s
Pipelines 9728 vs 7424
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 12 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

  • Around 39% higher core clock speed: 1290 MHz vs 930 MHz
  • Around 14% higher boost clock speed: 1665 MHz vs 1455 MHz
  • Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Core clock speed 1290 MHz vs 930 MHz
Boost clock speed 1665 MHz vs 1455 MHz
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark 939
PassMark - G3D Mark 25117
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 18885
Geekbench - OpenCL 160575

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace
Code name AD103 AD104
Launch date 2023 2023
Place in performance rating not rated 33

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1455 MHz 1665 MHz
Core clock speed 930 MHz 1290 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 4 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 442.3 GFLOPS (1:64) 386.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 28.31 TFLOPS (1:1) 24.72 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 28.31 TFLOPS 24.72 TFLOPS
Pipelines 9728 7424
Pixel fill rate 163.0 GPixel/s 133.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 442.3 GTexel/s 386.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 45900 million 35800 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent Portable Device Dependent

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 12 GB
Memory bandwidth 448.0 GB/s 384.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit 192 bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6