GeForce 256 DDR and GeForce RTX 4090 - video card comparison
GeForce 256 DDR
GeForce RTX 4090
Architecture
Celsius (1999−2005)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
NV10 A3
AD102-300-A1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 1999
September 2022
Interface
AGP 4x
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 16-pin
Boost clock speed
-
2520 MHz
Core clock speed
120 MHz
2235 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
220 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
17 million
76,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
16384
Power consumption (TDP)
-
450 Watt
Texture fill rate
0.48
1,290
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
-
8.9
OpenCL
N/A
3.0
OpenGL
1.2
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.6
Vulkan
N/A
1.3