NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 and 24GB VRAM RTX 4500 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 52% (2580MHz vs 1695MHz)
Lower TDP (210W vs 350W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3090
35.58 TFLOPS
RTX 4500 Ada Generation
+11%
39.63 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3090
19893
RTX 4500 Ada Generation
19774
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3090
+6%
10258
RTX 4500 Ada Generation
9588
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 3090
+7%
5383
RTX 4500 Ada Generation
5002
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
Release Date
Aug 2023
GeForce 30
Generation
Quadro Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1395 MHz
Base Clock
2070 MHz
1695 MHz
Boost Clock
2580 MHz
1219 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
936.2GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
82
SM Count
60
10496
Shading Units
7680
328
TMUs
240
112
ROPs
80
328
Tensor Cores
240
82
RT Cores
60
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
6 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
189.8 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
206.4 GPixel/s
556.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
619.2 GTexel/s
35.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
39.63 TFLOPS
35.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
39.63 TFLOPS
556.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
619.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
350W
TDP
210W
750 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
AD103
GA102-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ampere
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
5 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
45.9 billion
628 mm²
Die Size
379 mm²
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
8.6
CUDA
8.9
6.6
Shader Model
6.7
