ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 PRO and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +1753%

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Dec 2007

Release Date

Nov 2018

Radeon R600

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

36

320

Shading Units

2304

16

TMUs

144

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

49.44 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Polaris 30

R600 PRO (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

12 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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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