ATI Rage 128 VR AGP vs GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Rage 4 (1998−1999)
GPU code nameGA104Rage 4
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)1 August 1998 (26 years ago)

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 cores5120no data
Core clock speed780 MHz80 MHz
Boost clock speed1290 MHzno data
Number of transistors17,400 million8 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Wattno data
Texture fill rate206.40.16
Floating-point processing power13.21 TFLOPSno data
ROPs802
TMUs1602
Tensor Cores160no data
Ray Tracing Cores40no data

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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16AGP 2x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR6SDR
Maximum RAM amount8 GB32 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz125 MHz
Memory bandwidth384.0 GB/s1 GB/s
Shared memory-no 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)6.0
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.61.2
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2N/A
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 1 August 1998
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 8 nm 250 nm

RTX 3070 Max-Q has an age advantage of 22 years, a 25500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 3025% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q and Rage 128 VR AGP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q is a notebook card while Rage 128 VR AGP is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q
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