ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs AMD Radeon VII
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 16GB VRAM Radeon VII 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 295W)
AMD Radeon VII 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1750MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)
3520 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 2900 XT
0.476 TFLOPS
Radeon VII
+2723%
13.44 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Feb 2019
Radeon R600
Generation
Vega II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1400 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1750 MHz
828 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
HBM2
512bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
106.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1020GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
60
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
3840
16
TMUs
240
16
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.89 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
112.0 GPixel/s
11.89 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
420.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
26.88 TFLOPS
475.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.44 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
3.360 TFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
295W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 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 20
R600 XT
(215RGMDKA13FG)
GPU Variant
Vega 20 XT
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 5.1
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
7 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
13.23 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
331 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
1.3
-
-
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.7
