GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking956not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.56no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameR600GA104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date12 December 2007 (17 years ago)19 October 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3204864
Core clock speed600 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1665 MHz
Number of transistors720 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate9.600253.1
Floating-point processing power0.384 TFLOPS16.2 TFLOPS
ROPs1680
TMUs16152
Tensor Coresno data152
Ray Tracing Coresno data38

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length241 mm242 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin1x 12-pin

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount512 MB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1188 MHz
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/s608.3 GB/s

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.0 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.7
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 December 2007 19 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 80 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 225 Watt

ATI HD 2900 PRO has 12.5% lower power consumption.

RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 14 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 2900 PRO and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X. We've got no test results to judge.


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