NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 8 nm
  • 5x lower typical power consumption: 70 Watt vs 350 Watt
  • Around 44% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1219 MHz (19.5 Gbps effective)
  • Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1115 vs 1050
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 21 Mar 2023 vs 1 Sep 2020
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 70 Watt vs 350 Watt
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1219 MHz (19.5 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1115 vs 1050

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

  • Around 8% higher core clock speed: 1395 MHz vs 1290 MHz
  • Around 8% higher boost clock speed: 1695 MHz vs 1565 MHz
  • Around 85% higher texture fill rate: 556.0 GTexel/s vs 300.5 GTexel/s
  • Around 71% higher pipelines: 10496 vs 6144
  • Around 20% higher maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 20 GB
  • Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 26747 vs 20854
  • Around 57% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 191350 vs 121494
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1395 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Boost clock speed 1695 MHz vs 1565 MHz
Texture fill rate 556.0 GTexel/s vs 300.5 GTexel/s
Pipelines 10496 vs 6144
Maximum memory size 24 GB vs 20 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 26747 vs 20854
Geekbench - OpenCL 191350 vs 121494

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1115
1050
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
20854
26747
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
121494
191350
Name NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
PassMark - G2D Mark 1115 1050
PassMark - G3D Mark 20854 26747
Geekbench - OpenCL 121494 191350
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 732.196
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 7585.258
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 63.011
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 247.569
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2441.384
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 33398
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 33398
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3354
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 19948

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
Code name AD104 GA102
Launch date 21 Mar 2023 1 Sep 2020
Place in performance rating 32 45
Launch price (MSRP) $1499
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1565 MHz 1695 MHz
Core clock speed 1290 MHz 1395 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 8 nm
Pipelines 6144 10496
Pixel fill rate 125.2 GPixel/s 189.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 300.5 GTexel/s 556.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 70 Watt 350 Watt
Transistor count 35800 million 28300 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 556.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 35.58 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 35.58 TFLOPS

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 168 mm, 6.6 inches 313 mm (12.3 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 250 Watt 750 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 12-pin
Width 69 mm, 2.7 inches Triple-slot
Height 138 mm (5.4 inches)

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.2
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 20 GB 24 GB
Memory bandwidth 280.0 GB/s 936.2 GB/s
Memory bus width 160 bit 384 bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 1219 MHz (19.5 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6X