GeForce RTX 4090 vs Nvidia RTX A4500 Laptop

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

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to Nvidia RTX A4500 Laptop (40/100), 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 A4500 Laptop
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 93.0 Excellent WINNER 32.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A4500 Laptop
Fire Strike 72432 25127
Night Raid 195813 65181
Port Royal 26127 5881
Solar Bay 187525 39802
Time Spy 36299 9411
Wild Life Extreme 85218 19741

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A4500 Laptop
CUDA 8.9 8.6
DLSS 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 A4500 Laptop
1080p High 255 105
1080p Ultra 217 85
1440p Ultra 177 62
4K Ultra 106 34
CoD: Modern Warfare III 266263219151 86775536
Counter-Strike 2 33923818890 19014110350
Cyberpunk 2077 22620814366 72683917
Far Cry 6 203179170104 98897037
Forza Horizon 5 275199193155 116736041
Ghost of Tsushima 18815213791 69533721
Hogwarts Legacy 20016313274 70574324
Margin of Error Low High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 302284222118 1161047538
The Witcher 3 292268191101 1311047440

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A4500 Laptop
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 75599 23635
Face Detection (HP) 78111 29614
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15600 6159
Image Segmentation (HP) 36657 12031
Image Super Resolution (Q) 48114 15490
Machine Translation (HP) 6349 3097
Object Detection (SP) 21186 8192
Pose Estimation (Q) 289639 65582
Style Transfer (SP) 601428 142647
Text Classification (SP) 4074 1918

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A4500 Laptop
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 318.9 img/sec 158.7 img/sec
Edge Detection 21 Gpixels/sec 8.2 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 222.8 img/sec 115.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.38 Gpixels/sec 1.13 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 23.9 Gpixels/sec 5.85 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 14.2 Gpixels/sec 5.95 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 48090.4 FPS 15517.5 FPS
Stereo Matching 1950 Gpixels/sec 505.2 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A4500 Laptop
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename AD102 GA104
Launch price (MSRP) $1599
Purpose Gaming Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above -Intel Core i7 12800HXor above
Released September 20, 2022 March 22, 2022
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090 -Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A4500 Laptop
Base Clock 2235 MHz 510-1035 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 1035-1485 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128 46
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 72MB shared 4MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 128 46
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 96
Shading Units 16384 5888
Tensor Cores 512 184
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 512 184

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A4500 Laptop
Bus 384-bit 256-bit
ECC No Yes
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2625 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A4500 Laptop
DirectX 11 323 FPS 132 FPS
DirectX 12 151 FPS 76 FPS
G2D Mark 1303 706
GPU Compute 26022 Ops/s 6636 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A4500 Laptop
Die Size 609 mm² 392 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 8 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
TGP 450 W 80-140 W (configurable)
Transistor Count 76.3 billion 17.4 billion
Transistor Density 125.29 MTr/mm² 44.39 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A4500 Laptop
Pixel Fill Rate 444 GPixel/s 99-143 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1290 GTexel/s 190-273 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Nvidia RTX A4500 Laptop
Date Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) Cinebench 2024

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