NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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 RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 8 nm
6.4x lower typical power consumption: 70 Watt vs 450 Watt
Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Launch date	21 Mar 2023 vs 27 Jan 2022
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 Watt vs 450 Watt
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Around 21% higher core clock speed: 1560 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Around 19% higher boost clock speed: 1860 MHz vs 1565 MHz
2.1x more texture fill rate: 625.0 GTexel/s vs 300.5 GTexel/s
Around 75% higher pipelines: 10752 vs 6144
Around 20% higher maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 20 GB
Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1228 vs 1105
Around 46% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 29616 vs 20251
Around 66% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 205263 vs 123668

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1560 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Boost clock speed	1860 MHz vs 1565 MHz
Texture fill rate	625.0 GTexel/s vs 300.5 GTexel/s
Pipelines	10752 vs 6144
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 20 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	1228 vs 1105
PassMark - G3D Mark	29616 vs 20251
Geekbench - OpenCL	205263 vs 123668

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1105

1228

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

20251

29616

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

123668

205263

Name	NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
PassMark - G2D Mark	1105	1228
PassMark - G3D Mark	20251	29616
Geekbench - OpenCL	123668	205263
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		5737
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 RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Ampere
Code name	AD104	GA102
Launch date	21 Mar 2023	27 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating	28	26
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1565 MHz	1860 MHz
Core clock speed	1290 MHz	1560 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	8 nm
Pipelines	6144	10752
Pixel fill rate	125.2 GPixel/s	208.3 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	300.5 GTexel/s	625.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 Watt	450 Watt
Transistor count	35800 million	28300 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		625.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		40.00 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		40.00 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	Triple-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	168 mm, 6.6 inches	336 mm, 13.2 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt	850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 16-pin
Width	69 mm, 2.7 inches	140 mm, 5.5 inches
Height		61 mm, 2.4 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	20 GB	24 GB
Memory bandwidth	280.0 GB/s	1,008 GB/s
Memory bus width	160 bit	384 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6X