GeForce 256 SDR and TU106 - video card comparison

GeForce 256 SDR

TU106

Architecture

Celsius (1999−2005)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

NV10 A3

TU106

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 1999

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Interface

AGP 4x

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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Core clock speed

120 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

220 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

17 million

10,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

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2304

Texture fill rate

0.48

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Memory type

SDR

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Maximum RAM amount

32 MB

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Memory bus width

64 Bit

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Memory clock speed

143 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

1.144 GB/s

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Display Connectors

1x VGA

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DirectX

7.0

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

7.5

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

1.2

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

NVENC

-

7th Gen

PureVideo HD

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VP10