Tegra K1 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 ranking953not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.57no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code nameR600GK20A
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date12 December 2007 (16 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores320192
Core clock speed600 MHz756 MHz
Boost clock speedno data951 MHz
Number of transistors720 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology80 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt8 Watt
Texture fill rate9.6007.608
Floating-point processing power0.384 TFLOPS0.3652 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs168

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 x16IGP
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/sno 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.0 (10_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.3ES 3.1
OpenCLN/Ano data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 80 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 8 Watt

Tegra K1 has a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 2400% lower power consumption.

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