GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking931not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.05no data
Power efficiency0.55no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameR600GB203
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date14 May 2007 (17 years ago)2025
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores3208192
Core clock speed743 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2000 MHz
Number of transistors720 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology80 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)215 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rate11.89512.0
Floating-point processing power0.4755 TFLOPS32.77 TFLOPS
ROPs1696
TMUs16256
Tensor Coresno data256
Ray Tracing Coresno data64

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 5.0 x16
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 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 typeGDDR3GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount512 MB16 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed828 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth106.0 GB/s1.01 TB/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 Model4.06.8
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-10.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 16 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 215 Watt 175 Watt

RTX 5080 Mobile has a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 22.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 2900 XT and GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 2900 XT is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile is a notebook one.


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