AMD Radeon RX 470 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1808 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +1615%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

0.288 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Nov 2007

Arctic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

3

2048

Shading Units

240

128

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.212 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.212 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.5 GFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

R600

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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