GeForce 256 SDR: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 256 SDR sales 11 October 1999. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Celsius architecture and made with 220 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 32 MB of SDR memory clocked at 0.14 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1.144 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via AGP 4x interface.

General info

Some basic facts about GeForce 256 SDR: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name	NV10 A3
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	11 October 1999 (24 years ago)
Current price	$30	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

GeForce 256 SDR's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 256 SDR's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	120 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	17 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	220 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Texture fill rate	0.48	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 256 SDR and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	AGP 4x
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 256 SDR: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	SDR
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	143 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	1.144 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 256 SDR. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

1x VGA

API support

APIs supported by GeForce 256 SDR, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	7.0
OpenGL	1.2	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 256 SDR. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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