ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO vs R7 Graphics

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated951
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.57
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameSpectreR600
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 January 2014 (10 years ago)12 December 2007 (16 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 cores512320
Core clock speed720 MHz600 MHz
Boost clock speed980 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,410 million720 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate31.369.600
Floating-point processing power1.004 TFLOPS0.384 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs3216

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 1.0 x16
Lengthno data241 mm
WidthIGP2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 8-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 typeSystem SharedGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared512 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared256 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared800 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data51.2 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 ConnectorsNo outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model6.04.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 January 2014 12 December 2007
Chip lithography 28 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 200 Watt

R7 Graphics has an age advantage of 6 years, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 1233.3% lower power consumption.

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