RTX A4000 Mobile vs ATI 3D Rage II

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated104
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data24.06
ArchitectureMach (1992−1997)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameMach64 GT-BGA104
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date5 September 1996 (28 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$269 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data5120
Core clock speed60 MHz1140 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1680 MHz
Number of transistors5 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology500 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data115 Watt
Texture fill rate0.06268.8
Floating-point processing powerno data17.2 TFLOPS
ROPs180
TMUs1160
Tensor Coresno data160
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIPCIe 4.0 x16
Width1-slotno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeSDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 MB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed83 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth664.0 MB/s384.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x VGAPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX5.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLN/A4.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 September 1996 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 4 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 500 nm 8 nm

RTX A4000 Mobile has an age advantage of 24 years, a 204700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 6150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between 3D Rage II and RTX A4000 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that 3D Rage II is a desktop card while RTX A4000 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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ATI 3D Rage II
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