GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile vs GTX 1170

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated18
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data41.62
Architectureno dataAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameno dataAD103
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data9728
Core clock speedno data1335 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1695 MHz
Number of transistorsno data45,900 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data120 Watt
Texture fill rateno data515.3
Floating-point processing powerno data32.98 TFLOPS
ROPsno data112
TMUsno data304
Tensor Coresno data304
Ray Tracing Coresno data76

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data576.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1170 and GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1170 is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1170
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