GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile vs ATI Rage XL

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated18
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data41.13
ArchitectureRage 3 (1997−1998)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameRage 3AD103
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date1 August 1998 (26 years ago)3 January 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 coresno data9728
Core clock speed125 MHz1335 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1695 MHz
Number of transistors8 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology350 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data120 Watt
Texture fill rate0.13515.3
Floating-point processing powerno data32.98 TFLOPS
ROPs1112
TMUs1304
Tensor Coresno data304
Ray Tracing Coresno data76

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
InterfacePCIPCIe 4.0 x16
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 typeSDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 MB16 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed83 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth664.0 MB/s576.0 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 Connectors1x VGA, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX6.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.14.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 August 1998 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 8 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 350 nm 4 nm

RTX 4090 Mobile has an age advantage of 24 years, a 204700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 8650% more advanced lithography process.

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

Be aware that Rage XL is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile is a notebook one.


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ATI Rage XL
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