GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q and GeForce RTX 4090 - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

GeForce RTX 4090

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

GN20-E5 GA104

AD102-300-A1

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

September 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

1290 MHz

2520 MHz

Core clock speed

2235 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

17,400 million

76,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

5120

16384

Power consumption (TDP)

80 Watt

450 Watt

Texture fill rate

237.4

1,290

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

24 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

12 GB/s

21000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

1,008 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

8.9

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.6

Vulkan

1.2

1.3