ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT: specs and benchmarks
- Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
- Core clock speed 601 MHz
- Max video memory 256 MB
- Memory type GDDR3
- Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
- Maximum resolution
Summary
ATI started Radeon HD 2900 GT sales 6 November 2007. This is 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
of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.
General info
Of Radeon HD 2900 GT's architecture, market segment and release date.
| Place in performance rating | 998 | |
| Architecture | TeraScale (2005−2013) | |
| GPU code name | R600 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 6 November 2007 (14 years ago) |
Technical specs
Radeon HD 2900 GT's general performance parameters 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 cores | 240 | of 18432 (AD102) |
| Core clock speed | 601 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 720 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 80 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 150 Watt | of 900 (Tesla S2050) |
| Texture fill rate | 7.212 | of 939.8 (H100 SXM5) |
| Floating-point performance | 288.48 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on Radeon HD 2900 GT's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 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 don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1600 MHz | of 21000 (GeForce RTX 3090 Ti) |
| Memory bandwidth | 51.2 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
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 video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon HD 2900 GT, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 10.0 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmark performance of Radeon HD 2900 GT. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. 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.
- Passmark
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various 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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Game benchmarks
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.
Average FPS
Popular games
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon HD 2900 GT performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.
NVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon HD 2900 GT from NVIDIA is GeForce 7800 GTX, which is slower by 1% and lower by 3 positions in our rating.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon HD 2900 GT:
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