GeForce RTX 4090 D vs Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated2
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data17.27
Power efficiencyno data14.79
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameEllesmereAD102
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date24 April 2017 (7 years ago)28 December 2023 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 $1,599

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 cores230414592
Core clock speed1243 MHz2280 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2520 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt425 Watt
Texture fill rate179.01,149
Floating-point processing power5.728 TFLOPS73.54 TFLOPS
ROPs32176
TMUs144456
Tensor Coresno data456
Ray Tracing Coresno data114

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
Length305 mm304 mm
Width2-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount16 GB24 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1313 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s1,008 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, 3x DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 April 2017 28 December 2023
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 425 Watt

Pro Duo Polaris has 70% lower power consumption.

RTX 4090 D, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 180% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and GeForce RTX 4090 D. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro Duo Polaris is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 4090 D is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
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