NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 23 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock2175MHz
More VRAM (20GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
6144 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2023
Release Date
Oct 1999
Workstation Ada
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
2175 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
20GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
SDR
160bit
Memory Bus
64bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
48
SM Count
-
6144
Shading Units
-
192
TMUs
4
64
ROPs
4
192
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
48 MB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
139.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
417.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
26.73 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
26.73 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
417.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
130W
TDP
Unknown
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
NV10
-
-
-
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
220 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
294 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
8.9
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
-
