ATI FireGL V5600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM FireGL V5600 and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V5600 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (35.20GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
120 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2007
Release Date
Oct 1999
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1100 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR4
Memory Type
SDR
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
35.20GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
120
Shading Units
-
8
TMUs
4
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
6.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
89W
TDP
Unknown
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
NV10
RV630 GL
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
220 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
7.0
3.3
OpenGL
1.2
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.0
Shader Model
-
