Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada vs GeForce RTX 4090
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Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada
AD103
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090
AD102
We compared two discrete desktop graphics cards: the Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada with 60 pipelines and 7680 shaders against the 11 months older GeForce RTX 4090 that utilizes 128 pipelines and 16384 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Value for money (Beta)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4090
- Performs significantly better (up to 2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2.1x higher maximum theoretical performance (82.6 vs 39.6 TFLOPS)
- Shows 50% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 177 vs 118 FPS
- Has 2.3x higher memory bandwidth: 1010 vs 432 GB/s
- Features 272 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Achieves 53% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (316K vs 206K)
- Has 2.1x more shading units (16384 vs 7680)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 188 125 115 89 |
275 199 193 155 |
| The Witcher 3 | 201 170 128 66 |
292 268 191 101 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 274 213 151 83 |
339 238 188 90 |
| Far Cry 6 | 158 139 126 78 |
203 179 170 104 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 132 108 85 45 |
200 163 132 74 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 170 159 122 80 |
266 263 219 151 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 116 97 84 49 |
188 152 137 91 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 148 132 86 43 |
226 208 143 66 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 237 219 169 91 |
302 284 222 118 |
| 1080p High | 180 | 255 |
| 1080p Ultra | 151 | 217 |
| 1440p Ultra | 118 | 177 |
| 4K Ultra | 69 | 106 |
| Margin of Error | High | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 19814 | 36299 |
| Solar Bay | 85186 | 187525 |
| Port Royal | 12733 | 26127 |
| Fire Strike | 48036 | 72432 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 40308 | 85218 |
| Night Raid | - | 195813 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 309.9 img/sec | 318.9 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 198.4 img/sec | 222.8 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 7.42 Gpixels/sec | 14.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 9.94 Gpixels/sec | 21 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 12.4 Gpixels/sec | 23.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 2.02 Gpixels/sec | 2.38 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 1060 Gpixels/sec | 1950 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 31078.1 FPS | 48090.4 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1161 | 1303 |
| DirectX 11 | 259 FPS | 323 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 90 FPS | 151 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 16769 Ops/s | 25991 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4090
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-04-03 (afroman420IU) | Cinebench 2024 | 32578 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 11193 | 15600 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 20124 | 36657 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 34904 | 48114 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 42820 | 78111 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 149991 | 289639 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3789 | 4074 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4268 | 6349 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 13068 | 21186 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 47003 | 75599 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 300643 | 601428 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada and GeForce RTX 4090General
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | August 23, 2023 | September 20, 2022 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $2250 | $1599 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Professional | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | AD103 | AD102 |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5090 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 14700K or above | - Intel Core i9 14900K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (17th and 3rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 2070 MHz | 2235 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2580 MHz | 2520 MHz |
| Shading Units | 7680 | 16384 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 240 | 512 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 80 | 176 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 60 | 128 |
| Tensor Cores | 240 | 512 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 60 | 128 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 48MB shared | 72MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 206 GPixel/s | 444 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 619 GTexel/s | 1290 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 210 W | 450 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 379 mm² | 609 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 45 billion | 76.3 billion |
| Transistor Density | 118.73 MTr/mm² | 125.29 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6X |
| Memory Size | 24 GB | 24 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2250 MHz | 2625 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 18000 Mbps | 21000 Mbps |
| Bus | 192-bit | 384-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | 8.9 | 8.9 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 3 | DLSS 3 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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