ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 290W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 14 years late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

5824 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +4469%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

May 2021

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1575 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6X

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

48

320

Shading Units

6144

16

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

339.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

290W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

GA104

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

GA104-400-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

80 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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