GeForce 256 DDR and GeForce RTX 3090 Ti - video card comparison

GeForce 256 DDR

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Architecture

Celsius (1999−2005)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV10 A3

Ampere GA102

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

December 1999

January 2022

Interface

AGP 4x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

1860 MHz

Core clock speed

120 MHz

1560 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

220 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

17 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

450 Watt

Texture fill rate

0.48

625.0

Memory type

DDR

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

32 MB

24 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

300 MHz

21000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

4.8 GB/s

1,008 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x VGA

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

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

1.3