NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 505 OEM and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Lower TDP (25W vs 150W)

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 505 OEM

0.045 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 GT +540%

0.288 TFLOPS

GeForce 505 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

600 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

9.600GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

3

16

Shading Units

240

8

TMUs

12

4

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.356 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.212 GPixel/s

4.712 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.212 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

44.86 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

R600

GT218-300-B1

GPU Variant

R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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