NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (2520MHz vs 2175MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 20GB)

10240 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (280.0TB/s vs 1.01TB/s)

Lower TDP (130W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +208%

82.58 TFLOPS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

26.73 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 4090 +164%

12921

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

4876

GeForce RTX 4090

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RTX 4000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Aug 2023

GeForce 40

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

2175 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

160bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

280.0GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

48

-

Compute Units

-

16384

Shading Units

6144

512

TMUs

192

176

ROPs

80

512

Tensor Cores

192

128

RT Cores

48

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

174.0 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

417.6 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.73 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

26.73 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

AD104

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

5 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

130W

850 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

8.9

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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