GeForce RTX 4090 D: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce RTX 4090 D provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 72.95% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 4090 D sales 28 December 2023 at a recommended price of $1,599. This is a high-end Ada Lovelace architecture desktop card based on 5 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 24 GB of GDDR6X memory clocked at 1.31 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1,008 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a triple-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 304 mm. 1x 16-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 425 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 4090 D: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking13
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation26.53
Power efficiency13.81of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD102
Market segmentDesktop
Release date28 December 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,599 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

GeForce RTX 4090 D's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 4090 D's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores14592of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed2280 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed2520 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors76,300 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology5 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)425 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate1,149of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power73.54 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs176of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs456of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
Tensor Cores456of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
Ray Tracing Cores114of 188 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
L1 Cache14.3 MBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache72 MBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 4090 D and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Length304 mm
Width3-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 4090 D: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount24 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width384 Bit
Memory clock speed1313 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth1,008 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)
Resizable BAR+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 4090 D. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI+

API and SDK compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce RTX 4090 D, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.7
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.3
CUDA8.9
DLSS+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 4090 D. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

RTX 4090 D
72.95

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

RTX 4090 D Samples: 16 32259

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce RTX 4090 D is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GeForce RTX 4090 D's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 4090 D is Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which is slower by 3% and lower by 3 positions in our ranking.

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