Fire GL1 and TU117 - video card comparison

Fire GL1

TU117

Architecture

IBM (1999−2001)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

IBM

TU117

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 1999

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Interface

AGP 2x

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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Core clock speed

45 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

250 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

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4,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

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1024

Texture fill rate

0.05

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Memory type

SDR

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Maximum RAM amount

32 MB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

100 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

3.2 GB/s

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Display Connectors

1x VGA

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DirectX

6.0

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

7.5

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

1.2

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

NVENC

-

6th Gen

PureVideo HD

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VP10