Radeon Graphics 512SP vs ATI HD 2900 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking927not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.04no data
Power efficiency0.55no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameR600Renoir
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date14 May 2007 (17 years ago)7 March 2020 (4 years ago)
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 cores320512
Core clock speed743 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2100 MHz
Number of transistors720 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)215 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate11.8967.20
Floating-point processing power0.4755 TFLOPS2.15 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs1632

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 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

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 width512 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed828 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth106.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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-VideoMotherboard Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.0 (10_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.06.7 (6.4)
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 May 2007 7 March 2020
Chip lithography 80 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 215 Watt 15 Watt

Graphics 512SP has an age advantage of 12 years, a 1042.9% more advanced lithography process, and 1333.3% lower power consumption.

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