GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q vs Radeon RX Vega 3

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking779not rated
Place by popularity84not in top-100
Power efficiency13.62no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code namePicassoAD103
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date6 January 2019 (5 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 cores1929728
Core clock speed300 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speed1001 MHz1455 MHz
Number of transistors4,940 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate12.01442.3
Floating-point processing power0.3844 TFLOPS28.31 TFLOPS
ROPs4112
TMUs12304
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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x16
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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared16 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared256 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data448.0 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

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)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 6 January 2019 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 14 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 80 Watt

RX Vega 3 has 433.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 4090 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 3 and GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 3
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