ATI 3D Rage IIC PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2MB VRAM 3D Rage IIC PCI and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.144GB/s vs 0.664GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 1997
Release Date
Oct 1999
Rage 2
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
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83 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
2MB
Memory Size
32MB
SDR
Memory Type
SDR
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
0.664GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
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1
TMUs
4
1
ROPs
4
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Theoretical Performance
60.00 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
60.00 MTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
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Board Design
Unknown
TDP
Unknown
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x VGA
Outputs
1x VGA
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Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Rage IIC
GPU Name
NV10
Rage IIC PCI
(215R2PZUA21)
GPU Variant
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Rage 2
Architecture
Celsius
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
500 nm
Process Size
220 nm
0.005 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
39 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
5.0
DirectX
7.0
N/A
OpenGL
1.2
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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