NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32MB VRAM GeForce2 GTS and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (5.312GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2000
Release Date
Oct 1999
GeForce 2
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 4x
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
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166 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
32MB
Memory Size
32MB
DDR
Memory Type
SDR
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
5.312GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
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8
TMUs
4
4
ROPs
4
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Theoretical Performance
800.0 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
1.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
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Board Design
Unknown
TDP
Unknown
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x VGA
Outputs
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV15
GPU Name
NV10
GeForce2 GTS
GPU Variant
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Celsius
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
180 nm
Process Size
220 nm
0.025 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
88 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
7.0
DirectX
7.0
1.5
OpenGL
1.2
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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