Nvidia RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile vs Quadro4 900 XGL

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1506not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureKelvin (2001−2003)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV25 A2AD107
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date19 February 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 coresno data2560
Core clock speed300 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2025 MHz
Number of transistors63 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data35 Watt
Texture fill rate2.400162.0
Floating-point processing powerno data10.37 TFLOPS
ROPs848
TMUs880
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 MB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed325 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth10.4 GB/s192.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX8.112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGL1.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 February 2002 26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 5 nm

Nvidia RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile has an age advantage of 22 years, a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro4 900 XGL and RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro4 900 XGL is a workstation card while RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro4 900 XGL
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