3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 16 MB vs Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking763not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.09no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Voodoo Scalable (2000)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeVSA-101
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2018 (6 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores384no data
Core clock speedno data166 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data14 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data0.33
ROPsno data2
TMUsno data2

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).

Interfaceno dataAGP 4x
Widthno data1-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 typeno dataDDR
Maximum RAM amountno data16 MB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data166 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data2.656 GB/s
Shared memory-no 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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_16.0
OpenGLno data1.1
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 14 nm 180 nm

RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000) has a 1185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 16 MB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000) is a notebook card while 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 16 MB is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
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3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 16 MB
3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 16 MB

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