Riva TNT vs Radeon R3 Graphics

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Fahrenheit (1998−2000)
GPU code nameBeemaNV4
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date28 January 2015 (9 years ago)23 March 1998 (26 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 cores128no data
Core clock speed267 MHz90 MHz
Boost clock speed600 MHzno data
Number of transistors930 million7 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm350 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate4.8000.18
Floating-point processing power0.1536 TFLOPSno data
ROPs42
TMUs82

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).

InterfaceIGPAGP 2x
WidthIGP1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedSDR
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared16 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared110 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1.76 GB/s

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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)5.0
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.61.2
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 January 2015 23 March 1998
Chip lithography 28 nm 350 nm

R3 Graphics has an age advantage of 16 years, and a 1150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R3 Graphics and Riva TNT. We've got no test results to judge.


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