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 ranking	18
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Power efficiency	41.60	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	AD103
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores	9728	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	1335 MHz	of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	45,900 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	515.3	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	32.98 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	112	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	304	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Tensor Cores	304	of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Ray Tracing Cores	76	of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

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 size	large
Interface	PCIe 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 type	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	576.0 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory	-

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 Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.7
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	3.0
Vulkan	1.3
CUDA	8.9

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. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

RTX 4090 Mobile 71.82

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 27707

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 64952

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 143771

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 21278

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 HD	178
1440p	131
4K	85

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

156

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	110−120
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	95−100
Battlefield 5	170−180
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	100−110
Cyberpunk 2077	142
Far Cry 5	100−110
Far Cry New Dawn	130−140
Forza Horizon 4	220−230
Hitman 3	168
Horizon Zero Dawn	210−220
Metro Exodus	150−160
Red Dead Redemption 2	110−120
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	210−220
Watch Dogs: Legion	140−150

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	110−120
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	187
Battlefield 5	170−180
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	100−110
Cyberpunk 2077	136
Far Cry 5	100−110
Far Cry New Dawn	130−140
Forza Horizon 4	220−230
Hitman 3	167
Horizon Zero Dawn	210−220
Metro Exodus	150−160
Red Dead Redemption 2	110−120
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	387
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	110−120
Watch Dogs: Legion	140−150

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	110−120
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	161
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	100−110
Cyberpunk 2077	125
Far Cry 5	100−110
Forza Horizon 4	220−230
Hitman 3	152
Horizon Zero Dawn	305
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	370
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	204
Watch Dogs: Legion	120

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

110−120

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	110−120
Far Cry New Dawn	85−90

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	60−65
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	128
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	65−70
Cyberpunk 2077	95
Far Cry 5	60−65
Forza Horizon 4	260−270
Hitman 3	138
Horizon Zero Dawn	253
Metro Exodus	128
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	294
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	164
Watch Dogs: Legion	220−230

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

90−95

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	60−65
Far Cry New Dawn	50−55
Hitman 3	45−50
Horizon Zero Dawn	65
Metro Exodus	75−80
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	150

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	40−45
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	78
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	35−40
Cyberpunk 2077	48
Far Cry 5	35−40
Forza Horizon 4	80−85
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	156
Watch Dogs: Legion	69

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

50−55

Closest competitors

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

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile 100

GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile 90.59

RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile 87.02

Radeon RX 7900M 81.27

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile 71.11

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile 70.57

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Mobile 64.8

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile is Radeon RX 7900M, which is slower by 19% and lower by 20 positions in our ranking.