GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 61.33% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile sales 3 January 2023. This is a high-end Ada Lovelace architecture notebook card based on 4 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 16 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 2.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 576.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 120 Watt.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking31
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency41.15of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD103
Market segmentLaptop
Release date3 January 2023 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores9728of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed1335 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed1695 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors45,900 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology4 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)120 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate515.3of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power32.98 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs112of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs304of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
Tensor Cores304of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
Ray Tracing Cores76of 188 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
L1 Cache9.5 MBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache64 MBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile 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).

Laptop sizelarge
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile: 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 typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed2250 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth576.0 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)
Shared memory-
Resizable BAR+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile. 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent

API and SDK support

APIs supported by GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile, 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 Mobile. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

RTX 4090 Mobile
61.33

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 Mobile 27120
Samples: 2362

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

RTX 4090 Mobile 64746

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

RTX 4090 Mobile 113387

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

RTX 4090 Mobile 46191

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

RTX 4090 Mobile 143162

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

RTX 4090 Mobile 554375

3DMark Time Spy Graphics

RTX 4090 Mobile 21251

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile 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.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD170
1440p131
4K79

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low

Counter-Strike 2 300−350
Cyberpunk 2077 147
Hogwarts Legacy 179

Full HD
Medium

Battlefield 5 170−180
Counter-Strike 2 240
Cyberpunk 2077 142
Far Cry 5 173
Fortnite 300−350
Forza Horizon 4 250−260
Forza Horizon 5 181
Hogwarts Legacy 152
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
Valorant 350−400

Full HD
High

Battlefield 5 170−180
Counter-Strike 2 214
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 270−280
Cyberpunk 2077 133
Dota 2 199
Far Cry 5 167
Fortnite 300−350
Forza Horizon 4 250−260
Forza Horizon 5 174
Grand Theft Auto V 162
Hogwarts Legacy 88
Metro Exodus 156
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 394
Valorant 350−400

Full HD
Ultra

Battlefield 5 170−180
Cyberpunk 2077 128
Dota 2 187
Far Cry 5 158
Forza Horizon 4 250−260
Hogwarts Legacy 82
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 204
Valorant 350−400

Full HD
Epic

Fortnite 300−350

1440p
High

Counter-Strike 2 173
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 516
Grand Theft Auto V 138
Metro Exodus 117
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
Valorant 485

1440p
Ultra

Battlefield 5 160−170
Cyberpunk 2077 95
Far Cry 5 151
Forza Horizon 4 220−230
Hogwarts Legacy 74
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 164

1440p
Epic

Fortnite 150−160

4K
High

Counter-Strike 2 88
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 314
Grand Theft Auto V 172
Hogwarts Legacy 45−50
Metro Exodus 82
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 150
Valorant 300−350

4K
Ultra

Battlefield 5 120−130
Counter-Strike 2 85−90
Cyberpunk 2077 48
Dota 2 179
Far Cry 5 107
Forza Horizon 4 170−180
Hogwarts Legacy 37
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 95−100

4K
Epic

Fortnite 75−80

Closest competitors

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile is Radeon RX 7900M, which is slower by 18% and lower by 34 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile:

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile 100
Radeon 8060S 65.43
Radeon 8050S 58.98

Similar GPUs

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Recommended processors

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