ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

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ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1845MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1168 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 GT

0.288 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT +1704%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

VS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Dec 2019

Radeon R600

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1607 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

3

Compute Units

22

240

Shading Units

1408

12

TMUs

88

12

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

7.212 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

7.212 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

288.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Navi 14

R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

TeraScale

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

7 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5

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