GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q vs Radeon R7 M265

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1003not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTopazAD103
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date20 May 2014 (10 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
Compute units6no data
Core clock speed900 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speed825 MHz1455 MHz
Number of transistors1,550 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data80 Watt
Texture fill rate23.52442.3
Floating-point processing power0.7526 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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Bus supportPCIe 3.0 x8no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth32 GB/s448.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+-
HD3D+-
PowerTune+-
DualGraphics+-
ZeroCore+-
Switchable graphics+-

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.36.7
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCLNot Listed3.0
Vulkan-1.3
Mantle+-
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 May 2014 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 4 nm

RTX 4090 Max-Q has an age advantage of 8 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 600% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 M265 and GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R7 M265
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