AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP 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 560 896SP 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

656 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 896SP +631%

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

0.288 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

VS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Nov 2007

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

-

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

3

-

896

Shading Units

240

56

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.212 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.212 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.5 GFLOPS

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

45W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

R600

Polaris 21 XL

GPU Variant

R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

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

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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