ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (106.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1468MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (30W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 +136%

1.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

GeForce GT 1030

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

May 2017

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1228 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

320

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.49 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.23 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

17.62 GFLOPS

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1127 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

35.23 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

30W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

GP108

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

GP108-300-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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