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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU is NVIDIA’s Ada Lovelace mobile graphics card with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory and 9,728 shading units.
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Overview
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU is NVIDIA’s Ada Lovelace mobile graphics card with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory and 9,728 shading units. These are the manufacturer’s published figures. They describe what the chip is designed to do, not what your particular machine does with it, and the gap between those two is usually cooling. A boost clock is a ceiling rather than a promise, and how long a graphics card holds it under continuous load is the one thing no specification sheet can tell you.
Specifications
- Architecture
- Ada Lovelace
- Shading units
- 9,728
- Base clock
- Not verified
- Boost clock
- 1455 to 2040 MHz
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Memory type
- GDDR6
- Memory bus
- 256-bit
- TDP
- 80 to 150 W
- Process
- Not verified
- Launched
- 2023-02-08
Comparable within an architecture. Across vendors or generations it is not a like-for-like count.
Board power, not measured draw. A laptop GPU's power is a range the laptop maker chooses within.
Sources
Each figure, the label its source printed beside it, and the day it was read.
| Figure | As printed | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| ArchitectureAda Lovelace | NVIDIA Architecture | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Shading units9,728 | NVIDIA CUDA Cores | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Boost clock1455 to 2040 MHz | Boost Clock (MHz) | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Memory16 GB | Standard Memory Config | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Memory typeGDDR6 | Standard Memory Config | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Memory bus256-bit | Memory Interface Width | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| TDP80 to 150 W | GPU Subsystem Power (W) | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Launched2023-02-08 | GeForce RTX 4090 and 4080 laptops are available beginning February 8th | nvidia.comLaunch release |
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Compare
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What these numbers mean
Every figure on this sheet is a design target. None of it is a measurement.
Nothing above describes how a graphics card behaves twenty minutes into a sustained workload, which is where two chips with nearly identical specifications routinely diverge. A boost clock is a ceiling the vendor permits, not a rate the chip sustains, and whether it holds depends on the cooling, the case, the power profile and the room. None of those appear on a specification sheet.
We deliberately do not reduce these figures to a single score. A composite invented from specifications would look authoritative and measure nothing, and choosing the weights would be choosing the winner.