NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 PRO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

5568 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +5189%

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Dec 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

5888

Shading Units

320

184

TMUs

16

96

ROPs

16

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

R600

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

R600 PRO (215RGMDKA13FG)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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