GeForce 256 DDR and GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce 256 DDR

GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

Architecture

Celsius (1999−2005)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV10 A3

GN20-S7

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

December 1999

December 2021

Interface

AGP 4x

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1477 MHz

Core clock speed

120 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

220 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

17 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

30-45 Watt

Texture fill rate

0.48

189.1

Memory type

DDR

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

32 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

300 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

4.8 GB/s

112.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x VGA

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort

HDMI

G-SYNC support

DirectX

7.0

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

1.2

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

VR Ready