NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR vs ATI Fire GL2
What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR and ATI Fire GL2. Find out which graphics card has better performance.
Graphics Processor (GPU)
| NV10 | GPU Name | GT1000 |
| Celsius | Architecture | IBM |
| TSMC | Foundry | IBM |
| 220 nm | Process Size | 180 nm |
| 17 million | Transistors | unknown |
| 139 mm² | Die Size | 100 mm² |
Graphics Card
| Dec 23rd, 1999 | Release Date | Jun 1st, 2000 |
| GeForce 256 | Family | Fire GL |
| End-of-life | Production | End-of-life |
| AGP 4x | Bus Interface | AGP 4x |
Memory
| 32 MB | Memory Size | 64 MB |
| DDR | Memory Type | DDR |
| 128 bit | Memory Bus | 256 bit |
| 4.800 GB/s | Bandwidth | 7.680 GB/s |
Performance
| 480.0 MPixel/s | Pixel fillrate | 120.0 MPixel/s |
| 480.0 MTexel/s | Texture fillrate | 480.0 MTexel/s |
Clock Speeds
| 150 MHz 300 Mbps effective | Memory Clock | 120 MHz 240 Mbps effective |
| 120 MHz | GPU Clock | 120 MHz |
Render Config
| 4 | TMUs | 4 |
| 4 | ROPs | 1 |
| 4 | Pixel Shaders | 2 |
| N/A | Vertex Shaders | 1 |
Board Design
| Single-slot | Slot Width | Single-slot |
| unknown | Thermal design power (TDP) | unknown |
| 200 W | Suggested PSU | 200 W |
| 1x VGA | Display Connectors | 1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video |
| None | Power Connectors | None |
API support
| 7.0 | DirectX | 6.0 |
| 1.2 | OpenGL | 1.2 |
| N/A | OpenCL | N/A |
| N/A | Vulkan | N/A |
| N/A | Pixel Shader | N/A |
| N/A | Vertex Shader | N/A |