NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 & RTX 4060 Laptop GPUs Leak Out: Flagship Faster Than The RTX 3090

Dec 30, 2022 at 07:12am EST
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Performance benchmarks and specifications of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 & RTX 4060 Laptop GPUs have leaked out.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Faster Than Desktop RTX 3090, RTX 4060 Faster Than Desktop RTX 3060 In Leaked Benchmarks

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 & RTX 4060 Laptop GPUs should come as no surprise as we already mentioned them in our exclusive here. What's new here is that the specifications of the RTX 4090 have been confirmed by Geekbench 5 while the RTX 4060 has been benchmarked within 3DMark.

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Starting with the specifications, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 was spotted within an 'X370SNx' laptop which features the Intel Core i9-13900HX CPU and 32 GB of DDR5 memory. The laptop is loaded with the flagship NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU which has the same core specs as the RTX 4080 (16 GB) Desktop CPU. We are looking at 76 SM units for a total of 9728 CUDA cores, 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, and a listed maximum frequency of 2040 MHz which should be around 500 MHz slower than the boost clocks for the desktop RTX 4080 graphics card which utilizes the same AD103 GPU. This matches our exclusive info which reported a 1.59 GHz Base and 2.04 GHz boost clock for the same chip.

That gives us around 40 TFLOPs of compute horsepower which is the same as the RTX 3090 Ti desktop graphics card. Now the GPU will feature a 150W TGP with an additional 25W Dynamic Boost power. Performance metrics will also vary depending on the laptop design so it is possible that we might get even higher performance figures on higher-end laptop designs.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU offers performance close to the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX in Geekbench. (Image Credits: Benchleaks)

Coming to the performance, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU scored 210290 points in the Geekbench 5 OpenCL benchmark which puts it ahead of the RTX 3090 and within striking distance of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card. This is a really good performance for a laptop GPU as it is able to outclass the fastest graphics cards from the previous generation in a portable form. The RTX 4090 Laptop GPU also ends up 18% faster than the RTX 4080 Laptop GPU.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop OpenCL (Geekbench 5) Benchmark
Score
0
65980
131960
197940
263920
329900
395880
0
65980
131960
197940
263920
329900
395880
RTX 4090
395.9k
RTX 4080
248.9k
RTX 3090 Ti
229.7k
RX 7900 XTX
228.6k
RTX 4090 (Laptop)
210.3k
RTX 3090
204.9k
RTX 3080 Ti
201.4k
RTX 3080
181.1k
RTX 4080 (Laptop)
178k
RX 6900 XT
170k
RTX 3080 Ti (Laptop)
148.5k
RTX 2080 Ti
145.3k
RTX 3080 (Laptop)
138.4k
RTX 3070 (Laptop)
122k
RTX 3060 (Laptop)
98.7k

The second leak is of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU which should more or less be a very popular mainstream GPU for the mobility segment. The GPU will feature the AD107 GPU & rock 8 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 128-bit bus interface. The graphics chip is meant to feature 85-140W TGP.

An alleged NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU performance benchmark has leaked out. (Image Credits: ITHome)

ITHome managed to get an alleged screenshot of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU that was featured on a locally assembled laptop from Chinese manufacturer, ThunderRobot. Talking about performance, the GPU scored 10050 points within the 3DMark Time Spy Graphics bench & which already ends up faster than the RTX 3060 Desktop GPU. It also ends up 20% faster than the RTX 3060 Laptop GPU which featured a wider memory bus but we cannot tell if this is the best or the worst-case scenario for the performance since the TGP isn't mentioned.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU 3DMark Time Spy (Graphics)
Score
0
4000
8000
12000
16000
20000
24000
0
4000
8000
12000
16000
20000
24000
RTX 3080 Ti (Laptop)
13k
RTX 3080 (Laptop)
12k
RX 6800M (Laptop)
11.6k
RTX 3070 Ti (Laptop)
11.4k
Arc A770M (Laptop)
10.8k
RTX 3070 (Laptop)
10.5k
RTX 4060 (Laptop)
10.1k
RX 6700M (Laptop)
9.4k
RTX 3060 (Laptop)
8.3k

Regardless, it's a very good score and we can see a lot of laptops with this particular chip flooding the market to tackle Intel's Arc Alchemist and AMD's RDNA 3 mobility lineup.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Ada Laptop GPUs 'Official':

GPU NameNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050
Process NodeTSMC 4NTSMC 4NTSMC 4NTSMC 4NTSMC 4N
GPU CoreAD103AD104AD106AD107AD107
GPU SKUGN21-X11GN21-X9GN21-X6GN21-X4GN21-X2
CUDA Cores97287424460830722560
VRAM16 GB12 GB8 GB8 GB6 GB
Memory Bus256-bit192-bit128-bit128-bit96-bit
Boost Clock1455 - 2040 MHz1350 - 2280 MHz1230 - 2175 MHz1470 - 2370 MHz1605 - 2370 MHz
TBP80 - 150 W (+25W DB)60 - 150 W (+25W DB)35 - 115 W (+25W DB)35 - 115 W (+25W DB)35 - 115 W (+25W DB)

News Sources: Benchleaks , Videocardz

About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.

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