ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1455MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.1GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 +291%

1.862 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 1050

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Oct 2016

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1354 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1455 MHz

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.1GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

5

320

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.56 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

29.10 GFLOPS

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.862 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

58.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

GP107

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

GP107-300-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

132 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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