RTX 6000 Ada Generation vs Riva TNT

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated15
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data7.06
Power efficiencyno data17.09
ArchitectureFahrenheit (1998−2000)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV4AD102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date23 March 1998 (26 years ago)3 December 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$6,799

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data18176
Core clock speed90 MHz915 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2505 MHz
Number of transistors7 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology350 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data300 Watt
Texture fill rate0.181,423
Floating-point processing powerno data91.06 TFLOPS
ROPs2192
TMUs2568
Tensor Coresno data568
Ray Tracing Coresno data142

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceAGP 2xPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeSDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 MB48 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed110 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.76 GB/s960.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x VGA4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX5.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGL1.24.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 March 1998 3 December 2022
Maximum RAM amount 16 MB 48 GB
Chip lithography 350 nm 5 nm

RTX 6000 Ada Generation has an age advantage of 24 years, a 307100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 6900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Riva TNT and RTX 6000 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Riva TNT is a desktop card while RTX 6000 Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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