Radeon 780M 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 performance rankingnot rated299
Place by popularitynot in top-10046
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)RDNA 3 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameAD103Phoenix
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year ago)5 January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores9728768
Core clock speedno data1500 MHz
Boost clock speed1455 MHz3000 MHz
Number of transistors45,900 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt54 Watt (35 - 54 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate442.3139.2
Floating-point performanceno data8.909 gflops

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 x8
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR6no data
Maximum RAM amount16 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed14 GB/sno data
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 DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.1
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 54 Watt

Radeon 780M has 48.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q and Radeon 780M. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q
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AMD Radeon 780M
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