GeForce 256 SDR and Radeon RX Vega 3 - video card comparison

GeForce 256 SDR

Radeon RX Vega 3

Architecture

Celsius (1999−2005)

Vega (2017−2021)

GPU code name

NV10 A3

Vega Raven Ridge

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

October 1999

January 2018

Interface

AGP 4x

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Boost clock speed

-

1200 MHz

Core clock speed

120 MHz

600 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

220 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

17 million

4,940 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

192

Power consumption (TDP)

-

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

0.48

12.13

Memory type

SDR

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

32 MB

System Shared

Memory bus width

64 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

143 MHz

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

1.144 GB/s

-

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x VGA

No outputs

DirectX

7.0

12 (12_1)

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

1.2

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131