Radeon 610M vs Riva TNT2 Ultra

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated788
Place by popularitynot in top-10037
Power efficiencyno data13.24
ArchitectureFahrenheit (1998−2000)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNV5 B5Dragon Range
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date15 March 1999 (25 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 no data

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 data128
Core clock speed150 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2200 MHz
Number of transistors15 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology250 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate0.317.60
Floating-point processing powerno data0.5632 TFLOPS
ROPs24
TMUs28
Ray Tracing Coresno data2

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 4xPCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeSDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount32 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed183 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth2.928 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 VGA, 2x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX6.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.24.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 March 1999 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 250 nm 5 nm

Radeon 610M has an age advantage of 23 years, and a 4900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Riva TNT2 Ultra and Radeon 610M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Riva TNT2 Ultra is a desktop card while Radeon 610M is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Riva TNT2 Ultra
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