Riva TNT2 Ultra: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started Riva TNT2 Ultra sales 15 March 1999 at a recommended price of $299 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Fahrenheit architecture and made with 250 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 32 MB of SDR memory clocked at 0.18 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 2.928 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 4x interface.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Riva TNT2 Ultra: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Fahrenheit (1998−2000)
GPU code name	NV5 B5
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	15 March 1999 (25 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$299	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

Riva TNT2 Ultra's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Riva TNT2 Ultra's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	150 MHz	of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Number of transistors	15 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	250 nm	of 4 nm (H100 PCIe)
Texture fill rate	0.3	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs	2	of 192 (GA100)
TMUs	2	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Riva TNT2 Ultra 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 4x
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Riva TNT2 Ultra: 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	32 MB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	183 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	2.928 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Riva TNT2 Ultra. 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, 2x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by Riva TNT2 Ultra, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	6.0
OpenGL	1.2	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Riva TNT2 Ultra. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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