GeForce RTX 4090 vs Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 4090 (89/100)

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada) (51/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 45.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 93.0 Excellent WINNER 51.0 Below Average

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
Fire Strike 72432 36295
Night Raid 195813 130940
Port Royal 26127 10118
Solar Bay 187525 67951
Time Spy 36299 15498
Wild Life Extreme 85218

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
CUDA 8.9 8.9
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 3
DirectX 12 12
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
1080p High 255 155
1080p Ultra 217 131
1440p Ultra 177 99
4K Ultra 106 57
CoD: Modern Warfare III 266263219151 1371289665
Counter-Strike 2 33923818890 26220514480
Cyberpunk 2077 22620814366 1201097130
Far Cry 6 203179170104 14012810664
Forza Horizon 5 275199193155 1591089569
Ghost of Tsushima 18815213791 97826638
Hogwarts Legacy 20016313274 110927136
Margin of Error Low High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 302284222118 19017413271
The Witcher 3 292268191101 18015511258

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 75599 38963
Face Detection (HP) 78111 37971
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15600 8658
Image Segmentation (HP) 36657 17759
Image Super Resolution (Q) 48114 28281
Machine Translation (HP) 6349 4038
Object Detection (SP) 21186 11288
Pose Estimation (Q) 289639 113009
Style Transfer (SP) 601428 236141
Text Classification (SP) 4074 3535

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 318.9 img/sec 187.1 img/sec
Edge Detection 21 Gpixels/sec 8.53 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 222.8 img/sec 139.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.38 Gpixels/sec 1.55 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 23.9 Gpixels/sec 8.38 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 14.2 Gpixels/sec 5.71 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 48090.4 FPS 16849 FPS
Stereo Matching 1950 Gpixels/sec 577.7 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename AD102 AD104
Launch price (MSRP) $1599
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 185Hor above
Released September 20, 2022 March 21, 2023
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
Base Clock 2235 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 1465-2260 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128 58
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 72MB shared 48MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 128 58
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 80
Shading Units 16384 7424
Tensor Cores 512 232
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 512 232

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
Bus 384-bit 192-bit
ECC No Yes
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2625 MHz 2250 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 12 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
DirectX 11 323 FPS 214 FPS
DirectX 12 151 FPS 96 FPS
G2D Mark 1303 714
GPU Compute 26022 Ops/s 8532 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
Die Size 609 mm² 294 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 450 W 60-175 W (configurable)
Transistor Count 76.3 billion 35.8 billion
Transistor Density 125.29 MTr/mm² 121.77 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 95°C

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
Pixel Fill Rate 444 GPixel/s 117-181 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1290 GTexel/s 340-524 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
Date Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) Cinebench 2024

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