NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada
vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada is based on the NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada and has 6144 texture shaders and 48 execution units.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, which has 16384 shaders and 128 execution units.
NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
AD104 GPU Chip AD102-300-A1
Ada Lovelace Architecture Ada Lovelace
48 Streaming Multiprocessors 128
6144 Shader 16384
80 Render Output Units 176
192 Texture Units 512
48 Raytracing Cores 128

Memory

The NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada has 20 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 360 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition can access 24 GB GDDR6X graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 1008 GB/s.

20 GB Memory Size 24 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6X
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.313 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 21.0 Gbps
360 GB/s Memory bandwidth 1008 GB/s
160 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada clocks in the base with up to 1.500 GHz. The base frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition is 2.235 GHz.

1.500 GHz Base Clock 2.235 GHz
2.175 GHz Boost Clock 2.520 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada is 130 W (Reference). The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 16-Pin connector.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition has a TDP of 450 W and is supplied with the required energy via PCIe power connectors.

130 W (Reference) TDP 450 W
-- TDP (up) --
Unknown Tjunction max 90 °C
1 x 16-Pin PCIe-Power

Cooler & Fans

The NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada has a total of 1 Radial fans.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Radial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 70 mm Fan 1 2 x 110 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 39 dB

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
-- HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
4x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode AV1 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada is 241 mm long, 112 mm high and -- wide.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition is 304 mm long, 137 mm high and 61 mm wide.

241 mm Length 304 mm
112 mm Height 137 mm
-- Width 61 mm
1 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

The NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada was released in Q3/2023 at a price of 1,249 $ (Reference).

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition was introduced in Q4/2022 at a price of 1,599 $ (Reference).

-- Part-no --
Q3/2023 Release date Q4/2022
1,249 $ (Reference) Launch Price 1,599 $ (Reference)
5 nm Structure size 5 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Steel Nomad Light Graphics score

Steel Nomad Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Solar Bay (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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