NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 and NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Videocard is newer: launch date 22 year(s) 7 month(s) later
18.6x more core clock speed: 2235 MHz vs 120 MHz
2.7x more texture fill rate: 1,290 GTexel/s vs 480 MTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 220 nm
768x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 32 MB
4.4x more memory clock speed: 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective vs 300 MHz
6.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1297 vs 201
7657.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 38287 vs 5

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	20 Sep 2022 vs 1 February 2000
Core clock speed	2235 MHz vs 120 MHz
Texture fill rate	1,290 GTexel/s vs 480 MTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 220 nm
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective vs 300 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	1297 vs 201
PassMark - G3D Mark	38287 vs 5

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1297

201

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

38287

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090	NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR
PassMark - G2D Mark	1297	201
PassMark - G3D Mark	38287	5
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	9223
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	582.642
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	98.472
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	178.756
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2968.159
Geekbench - OpenCL	317791
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090	NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Celsius
Code name	AD102	NV10 A3
Launch date	20 Sep 2022	1 February 2000
Place in performance rating	13	911
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2520 MHz
Core clock speed	2235 MHz	120 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	220 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	1,290 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	82.58 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	82.58 TFLOPS
Pipelines	16384
Pixel fill rate	443.5 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	1,290 GTexel/s	480 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	450 Watt
Transistor count	76300 million	17 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Triple-slot
Height	61 mm, 2.4 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	304 mm, 12 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 16-pin	None
Width	137 mm, 5.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	7.0
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	1.2
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	1,008 GB/s	4.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective	300 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6X	DDR