GeForce RTX 4090 vs ATI Rage XL PCI

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1
Place by popularitynot in top-1006
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data18.83
Power efficiencyno data15.23
ArchitectureRage 3 (1997−1998)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameRage 3AD102
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 August 1998 (26 years ago)20 September 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,599

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 coresno data16384
Core clock speed125 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2520 MHz
Number of transistors8 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology350 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data450 Watt
Texture fill rate0.131,290
Floating-point processing powerno data82.58 TFLOPS
ROPs1176
TMUs1512
Tensor Coresno data512
Ray Tracing Coresno data128

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).

InterfacePCIPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data304 mm
Width1-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 16-pin

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 typeSDRGDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount8 MB24 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed83 MHz1313 MHz
Memory bandwidth664.0 MB/s1.01 TB/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 Connectors1x VGA, 1x S-Video1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX6.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGL1.14.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 August 1998 20 September 2022
Maximum RAM amount 8 MB 24 GB
Chip lithography 350 nm 5 nm

RTX 4090 has an age advantage of 24 years, a 307100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 6900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Rage XL PCI and GeForce RTX 4090. We've got no test results to judge.


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