GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q vs UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking854not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 12 (2021−2023)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTiger Lake XeAD103
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date30 March 2021 (3 years ago)3 January 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 cores169728
Core clock speed350 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speed1450 MHz1455 MHz
Number of transistorsno data45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology10 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

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).

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 widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data448.0 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 Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 March 2021 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 10 nm 4 nm

RTX 4090 Max-Q has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) and GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H)
UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q
GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

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