
GeForce 256 SDR and GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q - video card comparison
GeForce 256 SDR
GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q
Architecture
Celsius (1999−2005)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
NV10 A3
AD107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 1999
January 2023
Interface
AGP 4x
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
1605 MHz
Core clock speed
120 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
220 nm
4 nm
Number of transistors
17 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
-
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
0.48
128.4
Memory type
SDR
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
32 MB
6 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
96 Bit
Memory clock speed
143 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
1.144 GB/s
168.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x VGA
Portable Device Dependent
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