NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (2520MHz vs 2475MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1010GB/s vs 504.2GB/s)

10496 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (200W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +183%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Mar 2024

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1920 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

1010GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

16384

Shading Units

5888

512

TMUs

184

176

ROPs

64

512

Tensor Cores

184

128

RT Cores

46

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

36 MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

AD103

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

AD103-175-K1-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

5 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

200W

850 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

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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