3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 32 MB vs GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking121not rated
Place by popularity45not in top-100
Power efficiency51.76no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Voodoo Scalable (2000)
GPU code nameAD107VSA-101
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores2560no data
Core clock speed1455 MHz166 MHz
Boost clock speed1755 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data14 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate140.40.33
Floating-point processing power8.986 TFLOPSno data
ROPs322
TMUs802
Tensor Cores80no data
Ray Tracing Cores20no data

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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16AGP 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 typeGDDR6DDR
Maximum RAM amount6 GB32 MB
Memory bus width96 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed16000 GB/s166 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s2.656 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent1x DVI, 1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)6.0
Shader Model6.7no data
OpenGL4.61.1
OpenCL3.0N/A
Vulkan1.3N/A
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 4 nm 180 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 15 Watt

RTX 4050 Mobile has a 19100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 4400% more advanced lithography process.

3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 32 MB, on the other hand, has 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile and 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 32 MB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile is a notebook card while 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 32 MB is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
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