Radeon RX 5700 XT vs Radeon HD 2900 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1905MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
2320 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 2900 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+3286%
9754
Radeon HD 2900 GT
288
Graphics Card
Jul 2019
Release Date
Nov 2007
Navi
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1605 MHz
Base Clock
-
1905 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
3
2560
Shading Units
240
160
TMUs
12
64
ROPs
12
4 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
121.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.212 GPixel/s
304.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.212 GTexel/s
19.51 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.754 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
288.5 GFLOPS
609.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
150W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
R600
Navi 10 XT
(215-0917210)
GPU Variant
R600 GT
(215RGFDKA13FG)
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
80 nm
10.3 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
251 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
2.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.5
Shader Model
4.0
