GeForce 256 SDR and Quadro RTX 6000 - video card comparison

GeForce 256 SDR

Quadro RTX 6000

Architecture

Celsius (1999−2005)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

NV10 A3

TU102

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

October 1999

August 2018

Interface

AGP 4x

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1770 MHz

Core clock speed

120 MHz

1440 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

220 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

17 million

18,600 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4608

Power consumption (TDP)

260 Watt

Texture fill rate

0.48

509.8

Memory type

SDR

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

32 MB

24 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

143 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

1.144 GB/s

672.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x VGA

4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

DirectX

7.0

12 Ultimate (12_1)

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

1.2

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131