3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP vs GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking18not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency41.71no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Voodoo Scalable (2000)
GPU code nameAD103VSA-100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year ago)22 June 2000 (24 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$299

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 cores9728no data
Core clock speed1335 MHz166 MHz
Boost clock speed1695 MHzno data
Number of transistors45,900 million14 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate515.30.33
Floating-point processing power32.98 TFLOPSno data
ROPs1122
TMUs3042
Tensor Cores304no data
Ray Tracing Cores76no 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 connectorsno data1x Molex

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 amount16 GB32 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz166 MHz
Memory bandwidth576.0 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 22 June 2000
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 4 nm 250 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 30 Watt

RTX 4090 Mobile has an age advantage of 22 years, a 51100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 6150% more advanced lithography process.

3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP, on the other hand, has 300% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile and 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile is a notebook card while 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP is a desktop one.


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