NVIDIA Riva 128 PCI: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started Riva 128 PCI sales 1 April 1997. This is desktop card based on 350 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 4 MB of SDR memory clocked at 0.1 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1.6 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCI interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 4 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about Riva 128 PCI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
GPU code name	NV3
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	1 April 1997 (27 years old)

Technical specs

Riva 128 PCI's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Riva 128 PCI's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	100 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	4 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	350 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)	4 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	0.1	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Riva 128 PCI 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	PCI
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Riva 128 PCI: 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	4 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed	100 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	1.6 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Riva 128 PCI. 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, 1x DB13W3

API support

APIs supported by Riva 128 PCI, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	5.0
OpenGL	1.0	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Riva 128 PCI. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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