ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs NVIDIA NVS 315

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 1024MB VRAM NVS 315 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 14.00GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 315 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (19W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XT +376%

0.476 TFLOPS

NVS 315

0.1 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

NVS 315

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Mar 2013

Radeon R600

Generation

NVS

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

828 MHz

Memory Clock

875 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

48

16

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.046 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.184 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

100.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

8.368 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

GF119

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

GF119-825-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

19W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DMS-59

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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