3dfx Voodoo4 4500 PCI vs GeForce RTX 5090

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Blackwell 2.0 (2025)	Voodoo Scalable (2000)
GPU code name	GB202	VSA-100
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	2025	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 cores	21760	no data
Core clock speed	2235 MHz	166 MHz
Boost clock speed	2520 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	no data	14 million
Manufacturing process technology	0 nm	250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	500 Watt	15 Watt
Texture fill rate	1,714	0.33
Floating-point processing power	109.7 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	192	2
TMUs	680	2
Tensor Cores	680	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	170	no 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).

Interface	PCIe 5.0 x16	PCI
Length	304 mm	no data
Width	3-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 16-pin	None

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 type	GDDR7	SDR
Maximum RAM amount	32 GB	32 MB
Memory bus width	512 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1875 MHz	166 MHz
Memory bandwidth	1.52 TB/s	2.656 GB/s

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 Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x VGA
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	6.0
Shader Model	6.8	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.1
OpenCL	3.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.3	N/A
CUDA	10.1	-

Pros & cons summary

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Maximum RAM amount	32 GB	32 MB
Power consumption (TDP)	500 Watt	15 Watt

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