NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 16 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock2475MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
5648 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+10021%
29.15 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 2900 GT
0.288 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 40
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
-
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
3
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
240
184
TMUs
12
64
ROPs
12
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
36 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.212 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.212 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
288.5 GFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
150W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
R600
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
R600 GT
(215RGFDKA13FG)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
80 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
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
8.9
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
4.0
