GeForce 256 DDR and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison

GeForce 256 DDR

Radeon RX 590

Architecture

Celsius (1999−2005)

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

NV10 A3

Polaris 30

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

December 1999

November 2018

Interface

AGP 4x

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1545 MHz

Core clock speed

120 MHz

1469 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

220 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

17 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

175 Watt

Texture fill rate

0.48

222.5

Memory type

DDR

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

32 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

300 MHz

8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

4.8 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x VGA

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

7.0

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

1.2

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131

FreeSync