Radeon RX 7700S vs GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated111
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data27.38
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD103Navi 33
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year ago)4 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 cores97282048
Core clock speed930 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speed1455 MHz2500 MHz
Number of transistors45,900 million13,300 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate442.3320.0
Floating-point processing power28.31 TFLOPS20.48 TFLOPS
ROPs11264
TMUs304128
Tensor Cores304no data
Ray Tracing Cores7632

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s288.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.2
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 4 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 100 Watt

RTX 4090 Max-Q has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 50% more advanced lithography process, and 25% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q and Radeon RX 7700S. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q
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AMD Radeon RX 7700S
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