GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q vs Quadro RTX 4000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking107not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation36.09no data
Power efficiency17.30no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU104AD103
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date13 November 2018 (6 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$899 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores23049728
Core clock speed1005 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHz1455 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)160 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate222.5442.3
Floating-point processing power7.119 TFLOPS28.31 TFLOPS
ROPs64112
TMUs144304
Tensor Cores288304
Ray Tracing Cores3676

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
Length241 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

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 amount8 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1625 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth416.0 GB/s448.0 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 Connectors3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-CPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA7.58.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 November 2018 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 160 Watt 80 Watt

RTX 4090 Max-Q has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 200% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 4000 and GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 4000 is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000
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