3dfx Voodoo4 4500 AGP vs GeForce RTX 4090

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1not rated
Place by popularity6not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation18.83no data
Power efficiency15.23no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Voodoo Scalable (2000)
GPU code nameAD102VSA-100
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date20 September 2022 (2 years ago)13 October 2000 (24 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,599 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores16384no data
Core clock speed2235 MHz166 MHz
Boost clock speed2520 MHzno data
Number of transistors76,300 million14 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)450 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate1,2900.33
Floating-point processing power82.58 TFLOPSno data
ROPs1762
TMUs5122
Tensor Cores512no data
Ray Tracing Cores128no 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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16AGP 4x
Length304 mmno data
Width3-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6XSDR
Maximum RAM amount24 GB32 MB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1313 MHz166 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.01 TB/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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a1x VGA
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)6.0
Shader Model6.8no data
OpenGL4.61.1
OpenCL3.0N/A
Vulkan1.3N/A
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 September 2022 13 October 2000
Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 5 nm 250 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 450 Watt 15 Watt

RTX 4090 has an age advantage of 21 year, a 76700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 4900% more advanced lithography process.

3dfx Voodoo4 4500 AGP, on the other hand, has 2900% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4090 and 3dfx Voodoo4 4500 AGP. We've got no test results to judge.


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