GeForce RTX 4090 vs Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop

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

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop (25/100), 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 A500 Laptop
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 71.0 Good WINNER
Gaming 93.0 Excellent WINNER 13.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Fire Strike 72432 10265
Night Raid 195813 38312
Port Royal 26127 625
Solar Bay 187525 13710
Time Spy 36299 3022
Wild Life Extreme 85218 4053

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
CUDA 8.9 8.6
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 2
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 A500 Laptop
1080p High 255 36
1080p Ultra 217 26
1440p Ultra 177 19
4K Ultra 106 9
CoD: Modern Warfare III 266263219151 35271912
Counter-Strike 2 33923818890 66413012
Cyberpunk 2077 22620814366 241710-
Far Cry 6 203179170104 37372612
Forza Horizon 5 275199193155 47241912
Ghost of Tsushima 18815213791 181411-
Hogwarts Legacy 20016313274 231414-
Margin of Error Low Medium
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 302284222118 40352111
The Witcher 3 292268191101 322620-

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 75599 12079
Face Detection (HP) 78111 14319
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15600 3298
Image Segmentation (HP) 36657 8358
Image Super Resolution (Q) 48114 6219
Machine Translation (HP) 6349 3163
Object Detection (SP) 21186 3768
Pose Estimation (Q) 289639 22995
Style Transfer (SP) 601428 53139
Text Classification (SP) 4074 2226

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 318.9 img/sec 62.4 img/sec
Edge Detection 21 Gpixels/sec 2.11 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 222.8 img/sec 35.7 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.38 Gpixels/sec 0.52 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 23.9 Gpixels/sec 2.05 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 14.2 Gpixels/sec 1.62 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 48090.4 FPS 5502.5 FPS
Stereo Matching 1950 Gpixels/sec 185.1 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename AD102 GA107S
Launch price (MSRP) $1599
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above -Intel Core i7 12700Hor above
Released September 20, 2022 March 22, 2022
Segment High-end Entry-level
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Base Clock 2235 MHz 370-890 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 745-1710 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128 16
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 72MB shared 2MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 128 16
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 32
Shading Units 16384 2048
Tensor Cores 512 64
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 512 64

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Bus 384-bit 64-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps 12000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2625 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 4 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
DirectX 11 323 FPS 40 FPS
DirectX 12 151 FPS 38 FPS
G2D Mark 1303 411
GPU Compute 26022 Ops/s 2901 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Die Size 609 mm² 200 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 8 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
TGP 450 W 20-60 W (configurable)
Transistor Count 76.3 billion 8.7 billion
Transistor Density 125.29 MTr/mm² 43.5 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Pixel Fill Rate 444 GPixel/s 24-55 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1290 GTexel/s 48-109 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A500 Laptop
Date Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) Cinebench 2024

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