RTX 4500 Ada Generation vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated10
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data25.29
ArchitectureR400 (2004−2008)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameM18AD103
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date1 July 2004 (20 years ago)9 August 2023 (1 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 cores127680
Core clock speed350 MHz2070 MHz
Boost clock speed350 MHz2580 MHz
Number of transistors160 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data210 Watt
Texture fill rate2.800619.2
Floating-point processing powerno data39.63 TFLOPS
ROPs880
TMUs8240
Tensor Coresno data240
Ray Tracing Coresno data60

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
InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data245 mm
Widthno data2-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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB24 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed300 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth19.2 GB/s432.0 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 outputs4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0b (9_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 July 2004 9 August 2023
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 24 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 5 nm

RTX 4500 Ada Generation has an age advantage of 19 years, a 9500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2500% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon 9800 and RTX 4500 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon 9800 is a notebook card while RTX 4500 Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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