GeForce RTX 2080 Super Mobile vs 256 SDR

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated115
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data17.95
ArchitectureCelsius (1999−2005)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameNV10 A3TU104
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date11 October 1999 (25 years ago)2 April 2020 (4 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 data3072
Core clock speed120 MHz1365 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1560 MHz
Number of transistors17 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology220 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data150 Watt
Texture fill rate0.48299.5
Floating-point processing powerno data9.585 TFLOPS
ROPs464
TMUs4192
Tensor Coresno data384
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 3.0 x16
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 typeSDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount32 MB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed143 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.144 GB/s448.0 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 VGANo outputs
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

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

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX7.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL1.24.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.140
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 October 1999 2 April 2020
Maximum RAM amount 32 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 220 nm 12 nm

RTX 2080 Super Mobile has an age advantage of 20 years, a 25500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1733.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 256 SDR and GeForce RTX 2080 Super Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 256 SDR is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 2080 Super Mobile is a notebook one.


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