GeForce 256 DDR and GeForce RTX 2060 - video card comparison
GeForce 256 DDR
GeForce RTX 2060
Architecture
Celsius (1999−2005)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
NV10 A3
Turing TU106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 1999
January 2019
Interface
AGP 4x
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1620 MHz
Core clock speed
120 MHz
1320 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
220 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
17 million
10,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
1920
Power consumption (TDP)
-
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
0.48
201.6
Memory type
DDR
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
32 MB
6 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
300 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
4.8 GB/s
336.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI
-
+
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
7.0
12
CUDA
-
7.5
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
1.2
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
VR Ready
-
+