ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 32MB VRAM GeForce2 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (106.0GB/s vs 5.312GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Apr 2000
Radeon R600
Generation
GeForce 2
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
828 MHz
Memory Clock
166 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
106.0GB/s
Bandwidth
5.312GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.89 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
800.0 MPixel/s
11.89 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
475.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
215W
TDP
Unknown
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
NV15
R600 XT
(215RGMDKA13FG)
GPU Variant
GeForce2 GTS
TeraScale
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
180 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
0.025 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
88 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
7.0
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
1.5
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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-
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4.0
Shader Model
-
