NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation

Around 4% higher core clock speed: 1395 MHz vs 1335 MHz
Around 30% lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 150 Watt

Core clock speed	1395 MHz vs 1335 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt vs 150 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.1x more texture fill rate: 515.3 GTexel/s vs 244.1 GTexel/s
2.1x more pipelines: 9728 vs 4608
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 5 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 8 GB
Around 86% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 180351 vs 96838
Around 79% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 982 vs 548
Around 72% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 27374 vs 15893

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2023 vs 21 Mar 2023
Texture fill rate	515.3 GTexel/s vs 244.1 GTexel/s
Pipelines	9728 vs 4608
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 5 nm
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 8 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	180351 vs 96838
PassMark - G2D Mark	982 vs 548
PassMark - G3D Mark	27374 vs 15893

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

96838

180351

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

548

982

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

15893

27374

Name	NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile
Geekbench - OpenCL	96838	180351
PassMark - G2D Mark	548	982
PassMark - G3D Mark	15893	27374
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4911

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Ada Lovelace
Code name	AD106	AD103
Launch date	21 Mar 2023	2023
Place in performance rating	103	39
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz	1695 MHz
Core clock speed	1395 MHz	1335 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	4 nm
Pipelines	4608	9728
Pixel fill rate	81.36 GPixel/s	189.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	244.1 GTexel/s	515.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	22900 million	45900 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		515.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		32.98 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		32.98 TFLOPS
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	8 GB	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	256.0 GB/s	512.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6