[Comparison] NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (Laptop, 175W) vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (Laptop, 175W) – A new GPU leader in 2023
The RTX 4090 laptop GPU from NVIDIA is shaping up to be the most powerful laptop GPU for a while, as so far, the desktop RDNA 3 cards don’t look to be as powerful as the Ada GPUs from NVIDIA. If that’s evidence of what’s about to come to the laptop market, then NVIDIA will stay on top for a lot longer than expected. Today we’re comparing the highest-powered versions of the RTX 4090 and the RTX 3080 Ti from last year, each with a 175W power limit.
With the recent reveal of the new RTX 4000-series GPUs, we have to reassess our Top Laptop Graphics Ranking and provide new comparisons, so you can make the best decision for yourself.
For today we have the new RTX 4090 (Laptop, 175W) going up against the RTX 3080 Ti (Laptop, 175W).
You can find more information about both GPUs here: RTX 4090 (Laptop, 175W) / RTX 3080 Ti (Laptop, 175W)
Specs table
RTX 4090 (Laptop, 175W) | RTX 3080 Ti (Laptop, 175W) | |
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Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Ampere |
Lithography | 4 nm | 8 nm |
Base / Max Frequency | 1455 MHz / 2040 MHz | 975 MHz / 1640 MHz |
Memory Type | GDDR6X-20000MHz | GDDR6-14000MHz |
Memory capacity | 12GB | 16GB |
Cores | 9728 | 7424 |
Power Consumption | 175W | 175W |
Memory bus | 192-bit | 256-bit |
Memory bandwidth | – | 448 GB/sec |
GPU benchmarks
The RTX 4090 delivers a swift blow to the 3080 Ti in the Time Spy benchmark, resulting in a 58% higher score.
3DMark Time Spy | |
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (Laptop, 175W) | 20980 (+58%) |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (Laptop, 175W) | 13304 |
Conclusion
With this much performance, it’s almost certain that the RTX 4090 will be untouchable for the entirety of 2023 and maybe even beyond. However, it’s user base will undoubtedly be very small, and while there isn’t much competition in the absolute high-end, the budget and mid-range segments are fierce, with both AMD and NVIDIA bringing their A-game. Intel’s also somewhere in the picture, however, they still got stuff to figure out to be a real competitor in the market.
All laptops with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (Laptop, 175W):
There has an error in the article, the memory bus of RTX 4090 should be 256 bit.