ATI Rage 128 Ultra vs Quadro FX 4700 X2

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking920not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01no data
Power efficiency0.56no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Rage 4 (1998−1999)
GPU code nameG92Rage 4
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date18 April 2008 (16 years ago)1 August 1999 (25 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,999 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 cores128no data
Core clock speed600 MHz119 MHz
Number of transistors754 million8 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)226 Wattno data
Texture fill rate38.400.24
Floating-point processing power0.384 TFLOPSno data
ROPs162
TMUs642

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 2.0 x16AGP 4x
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 typeGDDR3SDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB32 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz119 MHz
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/s952.0 MB/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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)6.0
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.31.2
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2008 1 August 1999
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 65 nm 250 nm

FX 4700 X2 has an age advantage of 8 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 284.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 4700 X2 and Rage 128 Ultra. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 4700 X2 is a workstation graphics card while Rage 128 Ultra is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2
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