RTX 2000 Ada Generation Mobile vs GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated109
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data23.92
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD103no data
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores97283072
Core clock speed930 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1455 MHzno data
Number of transistors45,900 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology4 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate442.3no data
Floating-point processing power28.31 TFLOPSno data
ROPs112no data
TMUs304no data
Tensor Cores304no data
Ray Tracing Cores76no data

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
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16no data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 amount16 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependentno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate
Shader Model6.7no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.3-
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2023 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 4 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 115 Watt

RTX 4090 Max-Q has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 25% more advanced lithography process, and 43.8% lower power consumption.

RTX 2000 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 months.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q and RTX 2000 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q is a notebook graphics card while RTX 2000 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q
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NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation Mobile
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