3D Rage and Venus - video card comparison

3D Rage

Venus

Architecture

Mach (1992−1997)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Mach64 GT

Venus

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 1996

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Interface

PCI

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Core clock speed

44 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

500 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

5 million

1,500 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

640

Texture fill rate

0.04

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Memory type

EDO

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Maximum RAM amount

2 MB

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Memory bus width

64 Bit

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Memory clock speed

57 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

456.0 MB/s

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Display Connectors

1x VGA

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DirectX

5.0

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

N/A

2.1 (1.2)

OpenGL

N/A

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.5 (5.1)

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.170