Radar Card · 1990s
GeForce 256
NVIDIA · announced 31 Aug 1999, boards from 11 Oct 1999 · 32 MB SDR · 128-bit
- Bandwidth
- 2.66 GB/s SDR · 4.8 GB/s DDR
- Runs today
- 0 of 46
≈ 190 × 98 × 24 mm
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What runs on it today
None of the 46 tracked models runs on it. The smallest, LFM2.5 1.2B, needs 1.7 GB at 8K context — about 61× what this machine can give it.
Every tracked model against this machine's memory at 8K context, through the same fit engine as the finder: measured file + computed context cache + overhead versus usable memory.
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Accent: GeForce 256 · red: the smallest tracked model today, LFM2.5 1.2B (1.7 GB) · grey: the other cards
2 tracked models have no published attention shape and are counted as unknown.
One number per browser; it stays on this device and is never linked to you.
Edition Sep 2026 · The fit count is frozen into every issued number: a card from this month keeps saying what ran on the machine this month.
Facts
◇ Estimated— Estimated: computed from our curated model and hardware catalog — not a live reading.| Fact | Value | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | 32 MB SDR (DDR boards from Dec 1999) | reported | Wikipedia, GeForce 256 (cited table) ↗ |
| Bandwidth | 2.66 GB/s SDR · 4.8 GB/s DDR | reported | Wikipedia, GeForce 256 (cited table) ↗ |
vendor = the maker's own page or press release · review = a contemporary review naming the figure · reported = a secondary source quoting the period. What has no honest source is left off the card.
No price: NVIDIA sold the chip, boards came from partners at their own prices.
Proportions approximate — the maker publishes no dimensions.
What the hologram shows
- One GPU under a square heatsink with a small fan
- Four memory chips around it
- VGA connector on the bracket
- Capacitors along the top edge
Drawn from the machine's dimensions and parts list, not from a scan: it says a machine of this era, not this exact board.
Sources
Time travel
1990s
- 3dfx Voodoo Graphics1996 · 4 MB
- GeForce 2561999 · 32 MB
2000s
- Radeon 9700 Pro2002 · 128 MB
- GeForce 8800 GTX2006 · 768 MB
2010s
- GeForce GTX 4802010 · 1.5 GB
- GeForce GTX 9802014 · 4 GB
- GeForce GTX 1080 Ti2017 · 11 GB
2020s
- RTX 30902020 · 24 GB
- RTX 40902022 · 24 GB
- Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB2024 · 64 GB
- RTX 50902025 · 32 GB
- DGX Spark2026 · 128 GB