NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 24 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock2475MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
5888 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
Oct 1999
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
-
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
SDR
192bit
Memory Bus
64bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
-
184
TMUs
4
64
ROPs
4
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
36 MB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
Unknown
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
NV10
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
220 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
294 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
8.9
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
-
