NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA RTX A4500

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA RTX A4500

We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and a Professional market GPU: 20GB VRAM RTX A4500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (2520MHz vs 1650MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 20GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 640.0GB/s)

9216 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A4500 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +249%

82.58 TFLOPS

RTX A4500

23.65 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 +185%

36549

RTX A4500

12823

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +184%

185

RTX A4500

65

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +124%

280

RTX A4500

125

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +73%

304

RTX A4500

175

GeForce RTX 4090

VS

RTX A4500

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Nov 2021

GeForce 40

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

320bit

1008GB/s

Bandwidth

640.0GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

56

-

Compute Units

-

16384

Shading Units

7168

512

TMUs

224

176

ROPs

96

512

Tensor Cores

224

128

RT Cores

56

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

369.6 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.65 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

369.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GA102

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

200W

850 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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