ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 16 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock2130MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)
2496 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (70W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 2900 XT
0.476 TFLOPS
RTX 2000 Ada Generation
+2421%
12 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Feb 2024
Radeon R600
Generation
Quadro Ada
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1620 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2130 MHz
828 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
106.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
22
320
Shading Units
2816
16
TMUs
88
16
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
88
-
RT Cores
22
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
12 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.89 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
102.2 GPixel/s
11.89 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
187.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.00 TFLOPS
475.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.00 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
187.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
70W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
AD107
R600 XT
(215RGMDKA13FG)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
5 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
18.9 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
159 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
8.9
4.0
Shader Model
6.7
