RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation vs GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU102AD104
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date12 October 2022 (2 years ago)21 March 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 cores46087424
Core clock speed1350 MHz1290 MHz
Boost clock speed1635 MHz1665 MHz
Number of transistors18,600 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate470.9386.3
Floating-point processing power15.07 TFLOPS24.72 TFLOPS
ROPs9680
TMUs288232
Tensor Cores576232
Ray Tracing Cores7258

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount12 GB12 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth768.0 GB/s432.0 GB/s

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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-CPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.86.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA7.58.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 October 2022 21 March 2023
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 110 Watt

RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation has an age advantage of 5 months, a 140% more advanced lithography process, and 127.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB and RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB is a desktop card while RTX 4000 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB
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