GeForce 256 SDR and Radeon Instinct MI100 - video card comparison

GeForce 256 SDR

Radeon Instinct MI100

Architecture

Celsius (1999−2005)

CDNA 1.0 (2020)

GPU code name

NV10 A3

Arcturus

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

October 1999

November 2020

Interface

AGP 4x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1502 MHz

Core clock speed

120 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

220 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

17 million

50,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

7680

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

0.48

721.0

Memory type

SDR

HBM2

Maximum RAM amount

32 MB

32 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

4096 Bit

Memory clock speed

143 MHz

2.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

1.144 GB/s

1,229 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x VGA

No outputs

DirectX

7.0

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

2.1

OpenGL

1.2

N/A

Shader Model

N/A

Vulkan

N/A