NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT 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 17 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

5568 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +6023%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

Graphics Card

Aug 2024

Release Date

May 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

828 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

480.0GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

46

SM Count

-

5888

Shading Units

320

184

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

36 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

215W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

R600

AD104-2XX-A1

GPU Variant

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

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

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