RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation vs GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

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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
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD103AD103
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 cores97289728
Core clock speed930 MHz1425 MHz
Boost clock speed1455 MHz2115 MHz
Number of transistors45,900 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate442.3643.0
Floating-point processing power28.31 TFLOPS41.15 TFLOPS
ROPs112112
TMUs304304
Tensor Cores304304
Ray Tracing Cores7676

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 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
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 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s576.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.98.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2023 21 March 2023
Chip lithography 4 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 120 Watt

RTX 4090 Max-Q has a 25% more advanced lithography process, and 50% lower power consumption.

RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 months.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q and RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q is a notebook graphics card while RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q
GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q
NVIDIA RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation
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