NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
3x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 450 Watt
Around 52% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Launch date	2023 vs 27 Jan 2022
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 450 Watt
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Around 17% higher core clock speed: 1560 MHz vs 1335 MHz
Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 1860 MHz vs 1695 MHz
Around 21% higher texture fill rate: 625.0 GTexel/s vs 515.3 GTexel/s
Around 11% higher pipelines: 10752 vs 9728
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 16 GB
Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1229 vs 977
Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 29654 vs 27686
Around 4% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 22090 vs 21317
Around 14% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 205057 vs 179291

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1560 MHz vs 1335 MHz
Boost clock speed	1860 MHz vs 1695 MHz
Texture fill rate	625.0 GTexel/s vs 515.3 GTexel/s
Pipelines	10752 vs 9728
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 16 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	1229 vs 977
PassMark - G3D Mark	29654 vs 27686
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	22090 vs 21317
Geekbench - OpenCL	205057 vs 179291

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

977

1229

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

27686

29654

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

21317

22090

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

179291

205057

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
PassMark - G2D Mark	977	1229
PassMark - G3D Mark	27686	29654
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	21317	22090
Geekbench - OpenCL	179291	205057
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		259.78
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		63.049
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		177.665
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		3026.082

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Ampere
Code name	AD103	GA102
Launch date	2023	27 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating	22	23
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz	1860 MHz
Core clock speed	1335 MHz	1560 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	515.3 GFLOPS (1:64)	625.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	32.98 TFLOPS (1:1)	40.00 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	32.98 TFLOPS	40.00 TFLOPS
Pipelines	9728	10752
Pixel fill rate	189.8 GPixel/s	208.3 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	515.3 GTexel/s	625.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	450 Watt
Transistor count	45900 million	28300 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	Triple-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 16-pin
Height		61 mm, 2.4 inches
Length		336 mm, 13.2 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)		850 Watt
Width		140 mm, 5.5 inches
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	24 GB
Memory bandwidth	512.0 GB/s	1,008 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	384 bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6X