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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 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 1.10 percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT.

General info

Of Radeon HD 2900 GT's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in our rating

935

Architecture

TeraScale

GPU code name

R600

Market segment

Desktop

Launch date

6 November 2007 (13 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 10752 (GA102)

Core clock speed

601 MHz

of 2233 (Playstation 5 GPU)

Number of transistors

720 million

of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

of 5 (Apple M1 GPU)

Thermal design power (TDP)

150 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

7.212

of 781.8 (Radeon Pro W6900X)

Floating-point performance

288.48 gflops

of 2918.4 (GRID K340)

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

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 80 (A100 SXM4 80 GB)

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 6144 (GRID A100A)

Memory clock speed

1600 MHz

of 19500 (GeForce RTX 3090)

Memory bandwidth

51.2 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon VII)

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.

1.10

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.

292

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.

This video card matches 62% minimum and 53% recommended requirements of all games known to us.

Minimum

62%

Recommended

53%

Minimum

62%

Recommended

53%

Relative perfomance

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

100 %

Radeon HD 2900 GT

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon HD 2900 GT from NVIDIA is GeForce 7900 GS, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our rating.