ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3

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ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 128MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (106.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XT +957%

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3

0.045 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jun 2012

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

828 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

16

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.86 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

GT218

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

GT218-670-B1

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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