NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada is based on the NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada (Ada Lovelace) and has 24 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 432 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (Blackwell) and has 32 GB GDDR7 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 1792 GB/s.

GPU

The NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada has the AD103 graphics chip installed, which is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition is based on the graphics chip GB202-300-A1, which comes from the Blackwell architecture.
NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
AD103 GPU Chip GB202-300-A1
Ada Lovelace Architecture Blackwell
60 Streaming Multiprocessors 170
7680 Shader 21760
80 Render Output Units 176
240 Texture Units 680
60 Raytracing Cores 170

Memory

The graphics memory of the NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada clocks at 2.250 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 18.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition is 28.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.750 GHz.

24 GB Memory Size 32 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR7
2.250 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
18.0 Gbps Memory Speed 28.0 Gbps
432 GB/s Memory bandwidth 1792 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 512 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

2.070 GHz Base Clock 2.017 GHz
2.580 GHz Boost Clock 2.407 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada is powered by 1 x 16-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 130 W (Reference).

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition has 1 x 16-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 575 W.

130 W (Reference) TDP 575 W
-- TDP (up) 600 W
Unknown Tjunction max 90 °C
1 x 16-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 16-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada is equipped with a total of 1 Radial main fans.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition has 2 Axial main fans that 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) --

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

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

Featureset

With the NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 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 can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

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

Dimensions

The NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada is connected to the system via PCIe 4.0 x 16 lanes and requires 1 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 5 x 16 Lanes interface.

267 mm Length 304 mm
112 mm Height 137 mm
-- Width 40 mm
1 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 5 x 16
No SFF-Ready Yes

Additional data

The NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada has been manufactured with a structure width of 5 nanometers since Q3/2023.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition came on the market in Q1/2025 and will have a structure width of 5 nanometers manufactured.

-- Part-no --
Q3/2023 Release date Q1/2025
2,800 $ (Reference) Launch Price 2,329 $ (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)

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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