ATI FireGL V3600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 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 V3600 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (256GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
120 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jun 2007
Release Date
Oct 1999
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
32MB
DDR2
Memory Type
SDR
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
16.00GB/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
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
-
-
-
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
73W
TDP
Unknown
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
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
-
