NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages
Lower TDP (108W vs 240W)
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (106.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2005
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 7 PCIe
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
828 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
51.20GB/s
Bandwidth
106.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
320
24
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.89 GPixel/s
12.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.89 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
475.5 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
108W
TDP
240W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G70
GPU Name
R600
GF-7800-GTX-512-A2
GPU Variant
R600 XTX A11
(215RGMDKA11FG)
Curie
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.302 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
333 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
2.1
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
3.0
Shader Model
4.0
