GeForce 305M and Riva TNT2 Ultra - video card comparison

GeForce 305M

Riva TNT2 Ultra

Architecture

GT2xx (2009−2012)

Fahrenheit (1998−2000)

GPU code name

n11m-lp1

NV5 B5

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2010

March 1999

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Core clock speed

525 MHz

150 MHz

CUDA cores

16

-

Floating-point performance

36.8 gflops

-

Gigaflops

55

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

250 nm

Number of transistors

260 million

15 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16

-

Power consumption (TDP)

14 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

4.200

0.3

Memory type

GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3

SDR

Maximum RAM amount

Up to 512 MB

32 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

Up to 700 (DDR3), Up to 700 (GDDR3) MHz

183 MHz

Memory bandwidth

11.2 GB/s

2.928 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI

1x VGA, 2x S-Video

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

6.0

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

Shader Model

4.1

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

Power management

8.0

-