NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q vs NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q and 8GB VRAM RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 115W)

NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1695MHz vs 1455MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q +81%

28.31 TFLOPS

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

15.62 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 Max Q

VS

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Mar 2023

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1395 MHz

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

76

SM Count

36

-

Compute Units

-

9728

Shading Units

4608

304

TMUs

144

112

ROPs

48

304

Tensor Cores

144

76

RT Cores

36

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

163.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.36 GPixel/s

442.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

244.1 GTexel/s

28.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

15.62 TFLOPS

28.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.62 TFLOPS

442.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

244.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

AD106

GN21-X11

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

5 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

22.9 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

188 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

115W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

8.9

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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