ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO vs AMD Radeon RX 560

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

AMD Radeon RX 560

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 PRO and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 +579%

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

VS

Radeon RX 560

Graphics Card

Dec 2007

Release Date

Apr 2017

Radeon R600

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1175 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

16

-

320

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Polaris 21

R600 PRO (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

3 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

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

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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