RTX 4000 Ada Generation: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

RTX 4000 Ada Generation provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 63.77% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started RTX 4000 Ada Generation sales 9 August 2023. This is a high-end Ada Lovelace architecture desktop card based on 5 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 20 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 2.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 160 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 360.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 245 mm. 1x 16-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 130 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about RTX 4000 Ada Generation: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking29
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency33.63of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD104
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date9 August 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

RTX 4000 Ada Generation's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of RTX 4000 Ada Generation's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores6144of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed1500 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed2175 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors35,800 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology5 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)130 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate417.6of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power26.73 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs80of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs192of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Tensor Cores192of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Ray Tracing Cores48of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of RTX 4000 Ada Generation and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Length245 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on RTX 4000 Ada Generation: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount20 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width160 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed2250 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth360.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on RTX 4000 Ada Generation. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

APIs supported by RTX 4000 Ada Generation, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.8
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.3
CUDA8.9

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of RTX 4000 Ada Generation. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

RTX 4000 Ada Generation 63.77

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

RTX 4000 Ada Generation 24572

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

RTX 4000 Ada Generation 148137

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

RTX 4000 Ada Generation 119008

Gaming performance

Let's see how good RTX 4000 Ada Generation is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

RTX 4000 Ada Generation's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


RTX 4000 Ada Generation 100
RTX A5000 93.01

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to RTX 4000 Ada Generation is Radeon PRO W7700, which is slower by 9% and lower by 12 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to RTX 4000 Ada Generation:

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