AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 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 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1905MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 XT +1949%

9.754 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

May 2007

Navi

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1605 MHz

Base Clock

-

1905 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

4

-

2560

Shading Units

320

160

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

121.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

304.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

19.51 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.754 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

609.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

225W

TDP

215W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

R600

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

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

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

-

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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