RTX 4000 Ada Generation: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregated performance score

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 67.25% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

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Summary

NVIDIA started RTX 4000 Ada Generation sales 9 August 2023. This is a high-end Ada Lovelace architecture desktop card based on 5 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 20 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 GB/s are supplied, and together with 160 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 280.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 245 mm. 1x 16-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 130 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about RTX 4000 Ada Generation: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking22
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureAda Lovelace
GPU code nameAD104
Market segmentDesktop
Release date9 August 2023 (less than a year ago)

Technical specs

RTX 4000 Ada Generation's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of RTX 4000 Ada Generation's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores6144of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Boost clock speed2175 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors35,800 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology5 nmof 4 (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)130 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate417.6of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of RTX 4000 Ada Generation 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
Length245 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on RTX 4000 Ada Generation: 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 amount20 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width160 Bitof 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed14 GB/sof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth280.0 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on RTX 4000 Ada Generation. 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 Connectors4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

API support

APIs supported by RTX 4000 Ada Generation, sometimes including their particular versions.

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

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of RTX 4000 Ada Generation. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance 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 4000 Ada Generation 67.25

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

RTX 4000 Ada Generation 26038

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

RTX 4000 Ada Generation 147480

Gaming performance

Let's see how good RTX 4000 Ada Generation 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.

Relative performance

RTX 4000 Ada Generation's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.


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AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to RTX 4000 Ada Generation is Radeon RX 7900 GRE, which is faster by 2% and higher by 1 position in our ranking.

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