3dfx Voodoo4 4500 PCI vs GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking55not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency30.76no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Voodoo Scalable (2000)
GPU code nameAD106VSA-100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year ago)13 October 2000 (24 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 cores4608no data
Core clock speed1395 MHz166 MHz
Boost clock speed1695 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data14 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate244.10.33
Floating-point processing power15.62 TFLOPSno data
ROPs482
TMUs1442
Tensor Cores144no data
Ray Tracing Cores36no 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 x16PCI
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz166 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s2.656 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)6.0
Shader Model6.7no data
OpenGL4.61.1
OpenCL3.0N/A
Vulkan1.3N/A
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2023 13 October 2000
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 4 nm 250 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 15 Watt

RTX 4070 Mobile has an age advantage of 22 years, a 25500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 6150% more advanced lithography process.

3dfx Voodoo4 4500 PCI, on the other hand, has 666.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile and 3dfx Voodoo4 4500 PCI. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile is a notebook card while 3dfx Voodoo4 4500 PCI is a desktop one.


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