ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 375W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

3776 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +2654%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jul 2017

Radeon R600

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1382 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

828 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

512bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

64

-

320

Shading Units

4096

16

TMUs

256

16

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

375W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Vega 10

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX LCS

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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