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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU is a laptop graphics processor, built on the Ada Lovelace architecture. It has 16 GB of video memory and a 150 W board power rating. It scores 27,051 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (FL 12_2), OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4 and CUDA compute capability 8.9.

Ada LovelaceMobile

4/10 key specs recorded · 39 facts

Depth: 30 recorded fields, 13 features, 5 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified July 27, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix. Coverage: 4 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

n/a

Memory

16 GB

Boost clock

n/a

Board power

150 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU scores 27,051 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 98.7% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #37), measured across 3,302 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 988.

PassMark G3D Mark

27,051

Rank #37
Faster than 98.7% of 2,658 GPUs
3,302 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 310 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 97.5% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 170 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 98.1% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 257 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 97.3% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 106 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 96.8% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 12,133 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 96.1% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU averages DirectX 9 310 fps, DirectX 10 170 fps, DirectX 11 257 fps, DirectX 12 106 fps and GPU Compute 12,133 ops/s, across 3,302 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Mobile

Bus interface PCIe 4.0 x16

Max memory 16 GB

Core clock 1455 MHz

Memory clock 2250 MHz

DirectX 12_2

OpenGL 4.6

Max TDP 150 W

First benchmarked 2023-02-05

Samples 3,302

PassMark listing (collected 2026-09-30)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU states the PCIe 4.0 x16 interface, up to 16 GB of memory, a core clock of 1455 MHz, DirectX 12_2 and OpenGL 4.6, first benchmarked on 2023-02-05. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Not to be confused with

This page covers the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU specifically. It is a different product from NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D, which have their own specifications. Check the exact model name before comparing figures.

Graphics processor

Architecture Ada Lovelace

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The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture.

Memory

Size 16 GB

Type Not recorded

Bus width Not recorded

Bandwidth Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU is equipped with 16 GB of memory.

Board and power

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU has a board power rating of 150 W and it connects over PCIe 4.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 150 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

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Slot width Not recorded

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Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 4.0 x16

Market

Launched Not recorded

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Segment Laptop

Series GeForce RTX 40 Series

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 27,051

PassMark G2D 988

Rank #37

Samples 3,302

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (FL 12_2), OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4 and CUDA compute capability 8.9.

DirectX 12 Ultimate (FL 12_2)

OpenGL 4.6

Vulkan 1.4

CUDA compute capability 8.9

Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU.

Features

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU has 4 supported features recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.

Rendering

Supported: DirectX 12 Ultimate

Microsoft's top DirectX 12 feature tier, covering hardware ray tracing, mesh shaders, variable-rate shading and sampler feedback.
Supported: Hardware ray tracing 3rd Generation

Dedicated GPU hardware that speeds up ray-traced lighting, reflections and shadows in supported games and apps.

Not listed (2)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU supports NVIDIA DLSS and Vulkan ray tracing. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU supports DirectX 12 Ultimate and Hardware ray tracing (3rd Generation) under Rendering.

Compute and AI

Supported: CUDA Compute capability 8.9

Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.
Supported: Tensor cores 4th Generation

NVIDIA's dedicated matrix-math units used for AI workloads such as DLSS and machine-learning inference.

Not listed (1)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU supports NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU supports CUDA (Compute capability 8.9) and Tensor cores (4th Generation) under Compute and AI.

Media engine

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU provides hardware encode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265) and AV1 and hardware decode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265), AV1 and VP9.

NVIDIA NVENC encoder 8th Generation Encoder engines: 2NVIDIA's dedicated video-encoding engine, used by streaming and capture software; newer generations encode more efficiently.

NVIDIA NVDEC decoder 5th Generation Decoder engines: 1NVIDIA's dedicated video-decoding engine; newer generations support more codecs and formats.

Hardware video codec support of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU
Codec	Encode	Decode
H.264 (AVC)	Supported4:4:4: Yes	Supported
HEVC (H.265)	Supported4:2:2: No; 4:4:4: Yes; 10-bit: Yes; B-frames: Yes; 8K: Yes	Supported4:4:4: Yes
AV1	Supported	Supported
VP9	Not stated by the vendor	Supported

supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor

Media engines recorded for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU: NVIDIA NVENC encoder (8th Generation, encoder engines: 2) and NVIDIA NVDEC decoder (5th Generation, decoder engines: 1).

Naming and aliases

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU (Mobile).

Other names (PassMark) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU (Mobile)

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU have?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU has 16 GB of video memory.

How much power does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU use and what power supply does it need?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU has a board power rating of 150 W.

How fast is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU scores 27,051 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 98.7% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #37. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 106 fps.