AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 OEM 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 580 OEM 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 OEM +1125%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

May 2007

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

4

-

2304

Shading Units

320

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

R600

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

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

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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