Radeon RX 580G vs GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580G and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 580G 's Advantages
Released 19 years late
Boost Clock1330MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Oct 2018
Release Date
Oct 1999
Polaris
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
1257 MHz
Base Clock
-
1330 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
SDR
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
2304
Shading Units
-
144
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
42.56 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
191.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
6.129 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.129 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
383.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
185W
TDP
Unknown
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Polaris 20
GPU Name
NV10
Polaris 20 XTX
(215-0910038)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Celsius
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
220 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
2.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
6.4
Shader Model
-