AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

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AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT 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 5600 XT 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1560MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5600 XT +1410%

7.188 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

May 2007

Navi

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1130 MHz

Base Clock

-

1560 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

4

2304

Shading Units

320

144

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

99.84 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

224.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

14.38 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.188 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

449.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

R600

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

GPU Variant

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

80 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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