AMD Radeon RX 560 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 +448%

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

May 2007

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

-

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

4

-

1024

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

215W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

R600

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

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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