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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1076MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Graphics Card

Jun 2015
Release Date
Oct 1999
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1076 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz

Memory

6GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
SDR
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s

Render Config

-
-
-
-
-
-
2816
Shading Units
-
176
TMUs
4
96
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
3 MB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
-
-
-
6.060 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
189.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-

Board Design

250W
TDP
Unknown
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

GM200
GPU Name
NV10
GM200-310-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
220 nm
8 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
601 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
-
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