RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs GeForce RTX 4090 Ti

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated28
Place by popularity60not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data11.45
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD102AD104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date2023 (1 year ago)9 August 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 cores181766144
Core clock speed2325 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speed2565 MHz2175 MHz
Number of transistors76,300 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)600 Watt130 Watt
Texture fill rate1,457417.6
Floating-point processing power93.24 TFLOPS26.73 TFLOPS
ROPs19280
TMUs568192
Tensor Cores568192
Ray Tracing Cores14248

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
Length336 mm245 mm
Width3-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 16-pin1x 16-pin

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 typeGDDR6XGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount24 GB20 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit160 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.15 TB/s360.0 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 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
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 Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.98.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 20 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 600 Watt 130 Watt

RTX 4090 Ti has a 20% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 4000 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has 361.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4090 Ti and RTX 4000 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Ti
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NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation
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