ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX vs ATI Radeon HD 5850

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ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX ATI Radeon HD 5850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XTX and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

1120 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (151W vs 240W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

0.476 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5850 +338%

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

VS

Radeon HD 5850

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2009

Radeon R600

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

18

320

Shading Units

1440

16

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Cypress

R600 XTX A11 (215RGMDKA11FG)

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

240W

TDP

151W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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