ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

ATI started Radeon HD 2900 GT sales 6 November 2007. This is a TeraScale architecture desktop card based on 80 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.6 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.75% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking1112
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameR600
Market segmentDesktop
Release date6 November 2007 (16 years old)

Technical specs

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores240of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed601 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors720 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology80 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)150 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate7.212of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance288.48 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 2900 GT 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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 2900 GT: 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 typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed1600 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 2900 GT. 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API support

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

DirectX10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model4.0
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

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


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

ATI HD 2900 GT 0.75

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon HD 2900 GT is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Radeon HD 2900 GT's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 2900 GT is GeForce 7800 GTX, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.

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