GF117 vs Radeon HD 2900 GT

Place in performance ranking	1117	951
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	1.55
Architecture	TeraScale (2005−2013)	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	R600	GF117
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	6 November 2007 (16 years ago)	no data
Current price	no data	$70

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	240	96
Core clock speed	601 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	720 million	585 million
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	7.212	no data
Floating-point performance	288.48 gflops	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	no data
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	no data
Memory bus width	256 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB/s	no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

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Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

PureVideo HD

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VP5

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	10.0 (10_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	4.0	5.1
OpenGL	3.3	4.6
OpenCL	N/A	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	no data	2.1

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

ATI HD 2900 GT 0.76

GF117 1.43
+88.2%

GF117 outperforms Radeon HD 2900 GT by 88% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

ATI HD 2900 GT 292

GF117 554
+89.7%

GF117 outperforms Radeon HD 2900 GT by 90% in Passmark.