GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q vs Tesla V100 PCIe

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureVolta (2017−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGV100AD103
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date21 June 2017 (7 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 cores51209728
Core clock speed1246 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speed1380 MHz1455 MHz
Number of transistors21,100 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate441.6442.3
Floating-point processing powerno data28.31 TFLOPS
ROPs128112
TMUs320304
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 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinNone

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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB16 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1758 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth900.1 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA7.08.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 June 2017 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 12 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 80 Watt

RTX 4090 Max-Q has an age advantage of 5 years, a 200% more advanced lithography process, and 212.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla V100 PCIe and GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla V100 PCIe is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe
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