GeForce RTX 4090 vs Nvidia RTX 2000 Laptop (Ada)

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

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to Nvidia RTX 2000 Laptop (Ada) (35/100), 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 2000 Laptop (Ada)
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 55.0 Below Average WINNER
Gaming 93.0 Excellent WINNER 28.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Laptop (Ada)
Fire Strike 72432 18845
Night Raid 195813 76011
Port Royal 26127 4537
Solar Bay 187525 30392
Time Spy 36299 7446
Wild Life Extreme 85218 14651

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 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 2000 Laptop (Ada)
1080p High 255 91
1080p Ultra 217 73
1440p Ultra 177 52
4K Ultra 106 28
CoD: Modern Warfare III 266263219151 74664530
Counter-Strike 2 33923818890 1681238640
Cyberpunk 2077 22620814366 63533312
Far Cry 6 203179170104 86795933
Forza Horizon 5 275199193155 103635235
Ghost of Tsushima 18815213791 56433120
Hogwarts Legacy 20016313274 61483619
Margin of Error Low High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 302284222118 97906131
The Witcher 3 292268191101 111936635

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Laptop (Ada)
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 75599 29911
Face Detection (HP) 78111 28439
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15600 6324
Image Segmentation (HP) 36657 13952
Image Super Resolution (Q) 48114 19043
Machine Translation (HP) 6349 3267
Object Detection (SP) 21186 7742
Pose Estimation (Q) 289639 69947
Style Transfer (SP) 601428 131880
Text Classification (SP) 4074 2887

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Laptop (Ada)
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 318.9 img/sec 149.7 img/sec
Edge Detection 21 Gpixels/sec 4.3 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 222.8 img/sec 88.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.38 Gpixels/sec 1.06 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 23.9 Gpixels/sec 4.3 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 14.2 Gpixels/sec 3.24 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 48090.4 FPS 9706.8 FPS
Stereo Matching 1950 Gpixels/sec 278.2 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Laptop (Ada)
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename AD102 AD107
Launch price (MSRP) $1599
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 165Hor above
Released September 20, 2022 March 21, 2023
Segment High-end Mid-range
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Laptop (Ada)
Base Clock 2235 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 1245-2360 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128 24
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 72MB shared 32MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 128 24
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 48
Shading Units 16384 3072
Tensor Cores 512 96
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 512 96

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Laptop (Ada)
Bus 384-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2625 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 8 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Laptop (Ada)
DirectX 11 323 FPS 123 FPS
DirectX 12 151 FPS 66 FPS
G2D Mark 1303 600
GPU Compute 26022 Ops/s 5624 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Laptop (Ada)
Die Size 609 mm² 159 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 450 W 35-140 W (configurable)
Transistor Count 76.3 billion 18.9 billion
Transistor Density 125.29 MTr/mm² 118.87 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 95°C

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Laptop (Ada)
Pixel Fill Rate 444 GPixel/s 60-113 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1290 GTexel/s 120-227 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX 2000 Laptop (Ada)
Date Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) Cinebench 2024

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