Radeon HD 2900 XTX: specs and benchmarks

Summary

This is a desktop graphics card based on a TeraScale architecture and made with 80 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.66 GHz are supplied, and together with 512 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 106.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 315 mm. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 240 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 2900 XTX: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name	R600
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	no data

Detailed specifications

Radeon HD 2900 XTX's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 2900 XTX's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	320	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	743 MHz	of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	720 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	of 4 nm (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	240 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	11.89	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 2900 XTX and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	315 mm
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 2900 XTX: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	512 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1656 MBps	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	106.0 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 2900 XTX. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon HD 2900 XTX, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model	4.0
OpenGL	3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 2900 XTX. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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