UHD Graphics 605 vs GeForce 256 DDR

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1069
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data16.17
ArchitectureCelsius (1999−2005)Generation 9.5 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameNV10 A3Gemini Lake GT1.5
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date23 December 1999 (25 years ago)11 December 2017 (7 years ago)

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 data144
Core clock speed120 MHz200 MHz
Boost clock speedno data750 MHz
Number of transistors17 million189 million
Manufacturing process technology220 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data5 Watt
Texture fill rate0.4813.50
Floating-point processing powerno data0.216 TFLOPS
ROPs43
TMUs418

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 4xRing Bus
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount32 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed150 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth4.8 GB/sno data
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 VGAPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX7.012 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL1.24.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 December 1999 11 December 2017
Chip lithography 220 nm 14 nm

UHD Graphics 605 has an age advantage of 17 years, and a 1471.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 256 DDR and UHD Graphics 605. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 256 DDR is a desktop card while UHD Graphics 605 is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR
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Intel UHD Graphics 605
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