RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation vs GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking17not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD103AD103
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year ago)21 March 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 cores97289728
Core clock speed1335 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speed1695 MHz1680 MHz
Number of transistors45,900 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate515.3510.7
Floating-point processing power32.98 TFLOPS32.69 TFLOPS
ROPs112112
TMUs304304
Tensor Cores304304
Ray Tracing Cores7676

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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth576.0 GB/s576.0 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
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.98.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2023 21 March 2023
Chip lithography 4 nm 5 nm

RTX 4090 Mobile has a 25% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 months.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile and RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile
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NVIDIA RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation
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