ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO vs AMD Radeon RX 470

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 PRO and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 +1186%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Dec 2007

Release Date

Aug 2016

Radeon R600

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

926 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

32

320

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Ellesmere

R600 PRO (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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