GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 4090
GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
AD102-300-A1
GA107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2022
December 2021
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 16-pin
None
Boost clock speed
2520 MHz
1155 MHz
Core clock speed
2235 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
5 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
76,300 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16384
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
450 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
1,290
73.92
Memory type
GDDR6X
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
24 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
21000 MHz
12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
1,008 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
8.9
8.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.7
Vulkan
1.3
1.3