ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 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 16.80GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
64 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (20W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 2900 XT
0.476 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
+122%
1.059 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Mar 2018
Radeon R600
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1152 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
828 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR4
512bit
Memory Bus
64bit
106.0GB/s
Bandwidth
16.80GB/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
22.06 GPixel/s
11.89 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.10 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.55 GFLOPS
475.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1059 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
33.10 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
20W
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
GP108-310-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
