RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs GeForce FX Go5250

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 data36.92
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV34 A1AD104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 March 2003 (21 year ago)9 August 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 data6144
Core clock speed250 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2175 MHz
Number of transistors45 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data130 Watt
Texture fill rate1.000417.6
Floating-point processing powerno data26.73 TFLOPS
ROPs480
TMUs4192
Tensor Coresno data192
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data245 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount64 MB20 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit160 Bit
Memory clock speed250 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 GB/s360.0 GB/s

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 outputs4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0a12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2003 9 August 2023
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 20 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 5 nm

RTX 4000 Ada Generation has an age advantage of 20 years, a 31900% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2900% more advanced lithography process.

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NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5250
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