GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q vs Radeon R5 (Kaveri)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1124not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.1 (2014)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameKaveriAD103
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 June 2014 (11 years ago)3 January 2023 (3 years 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 cores2569728
Core clock speed514 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speed626 MHz1455 MHz
Number of transistors2410 Million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data80 Watt
Texture fill rateno data442.3
Floating-point processing powerno data28.31 TFLOPS
ROPsno data112
TMUsno data304
Tensor Coresno data304
Ray Tracing Coresno data76
L1 Cacheno data9.5 MB
L2 Cacheno data64 MB

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 sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data448.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-
Resizable BAR-+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2014 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 28 nm 4 nm

RTX 4090 Max-Q has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 600% more advanced lithography process.

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