GeForce 256 DDR and GeForce RTX 4070 - video card comparison
GeForce 256 DDR
GeForce RTX 4070
Architecture
Celsius (1999−2005)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
NV10 A3
AD104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 1999
April 2023
Interface
AGP 4x
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 16-pin
Boost clock speed
-
2475 MHz
Core clock speed
120 MHz
1920 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
220 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
17 million
35,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
5888
Power consumption (TDP)
-
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
0.48
455.4
Memory type
DDR
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
32 MB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
300 MHz
21000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
4.8 GB/s
504.2 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
-
8.9
OpenCL
N/A
3.0
OpenGL
1.2
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3