Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs GeForce4 4200 Go

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated200
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data53.93
Architectureno dataAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV28MAD107
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date15 November 2002 (22 years ago)26 February 2024 (less than a year 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 cores62048
Core clock speed2 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speed200 MHz2025 MHz
Number of transistorsno data18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data129.6
Floating-point processing powerno data8.294 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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 sizemedium sizedmedium sized
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8

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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount128 MB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed200 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data128.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectXDDR12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 November 2002 26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 5 nm

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile has an age advantage of 21 year, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce4 4200 Go and RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce4 4200 Go is a notebook graphics card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go
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