NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 RTX 3090 's Advantages
Released 20 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1695MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
10496 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
Release Date
Oct 1999
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
1395 MHz
Base Clock
-
1695 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1219 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
SDR
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
936.2GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
82
SM Count
-
10496
Shading Units
-
328
TMUs
4
112
ROPs
4
328
Tensor Cores
-
82
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
6 MB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
189.8 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
556.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
35.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
35.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
556.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
350W
TDP
Unknown
750 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
NV10
GA102-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ampere
Architecture
Celsius
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
220 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
628 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
-
6.6
Shader Model
-
