GeForce 256 SDR and RTX A400 - video card comparison

GeForce 256 SDR

RTX A400

Architecture

Celsius (1999−2005)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV10 A3

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

October 1999

April 2024

Interface

AGP 4x

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1762 MHz

Core clock speed

120 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

220 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

17 million

8,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

768

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

Texture fill rate

0.48

42.29

Memory type

SDR

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

32 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

143 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

1.144 GB/s

96 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x VGA

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

DirectX

7.0

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

1.2

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3