RTX A1000 vs GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX A1000 and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX A1000 's Advantages
Released 24 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1462MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2024
Release Date
Oct 1999
Quadro Ampere
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
727 MHz
Base Clock
-
1462 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
SDR
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
192.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
18
SM Count
-
2304
Shading Units
-
72
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
72
Tensor Cores
-
18
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
46.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
105.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
6.737 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.737 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
105.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
Unknown
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
NV10
Ampere
Architecture
Celsius
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
220 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
-
