Riva 128ZX: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started Riva 128ZX sales 23 February 1998. This is desktop card based on 350 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 8 MB of SDR memory clocked at 0.1 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1.6 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 2x interface.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Riva 128ZX: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
GPU code name | NV3 | |
Market segment | Desktop | |
Release date | 23 February 1998 (26 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Riva 128ZX's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Riva 128ZX's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Core clock speed | 100 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
Number of transistors | 4 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
Manufacturing process technology | 350 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
Texture fill rate | 0.1 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Riva 128ZX and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
Interface | AGP 2x | |
Width | 1-slot | |
Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Riva 128ZX: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
Memory type | SDR | |
Maximum RAM amount | 8 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Memory clock speed | 100 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
Memory bandwidth | 1.6 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Riva 128ZX. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
Display Connectors | 1x VGA |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Riva 128ZX, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX | 5.0 | |
OpenGL | 1.0 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
OpenCL | N/A | |
Vulkan | N/A |
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Riva 128ZX according to our statistics.