GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q vs Radeon R5 430 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking809not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.67no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameOlandAD103
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date30 June 2016 (8 years ago)3 January 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 cores3849728
Core clock speed730 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speed780 MHz1455 MHz
Number of transistors950 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate18.72442.3
Floating-point processing power0.599 TFLOPS28.31 TFLOPS
ROPs8112
TMUs24304
Tensor Coresno data304
Ray Tracing Coresno data76

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 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB16 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1150 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth36.8 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 June 2016 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 80 Watt

R5 430 OEM has 60% lower power consumption.

RTX 4090 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 600% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 430 OEM and GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 430 OEM is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R5 430 OEM
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