GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile vs Riva 128 PCI

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated27
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data40.96
Architectureno dataAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV3AD104
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 April 1997 (27 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 data7424
Core clock speed100 MHz1290 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1665 MHz
Number of transistors4 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology350 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)4 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate0.1386.3
Floating-point processing powerno data24.72 TFLOPS
ROPs180
TMUs1232
Tensor Coresno data232
Ray Tracing Coresno data58

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 amount4 MB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed100 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.6 GB/s432.0 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 DB13W3Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX5.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.04.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 1997 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 4 MB 12 GB
Chip lithography 350 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 4 Watt 110 Watt

Riva 128 PCI has 2650% lower power consumption.

RTX 4080 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 25 years, a 307100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 8650% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Riva 128 PCI and GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Riva 128 PCI is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Riva 128 PCI
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