FireGL X3-256 and GeForce RTX 4090 - video card comparison

FireGL X3-256

GeForce RTX 4090

Architecture

R400 (2004−2008)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

R420

AD102-300-A1

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

August 2004

September 2022

Interface

AGP 8x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x Molex

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

2520 MHz

Core clock speed

491 MHz

2235 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

160 million

76,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16384

Power consumption (TDP)

57 Watt

450 Watt

Texture fill rate

5.892

1,290

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

24 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

908 MHz

21000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

29.06 GB/s

1,008 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

9.0b (9_2)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.9

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

2.0

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.3