GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages
Released 20 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1725MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
5888 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
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
1725 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
SDR
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
-
184
TMUs
4
96
ROPs
4
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
165.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
317.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
20.31 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
20.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
317.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
220W
TDP
Unknown
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
NV10
GA104-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ampere
Architecture
Celsius
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
220 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
392 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
-
