AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

3856 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +4452%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

0.288 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

VS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Nov 2007

Radeon Pro

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

256MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

3

-

4096

Shading Units

240

256

TMUs

12

64

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.212 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.212 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.5 GFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

375W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

R600

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

495 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

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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