Riva TNT2 vs Radeon RX 7500 XT

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)	Fahrenheit (1998−2000)
GPU code name	Navi 33	NV5
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	2023 (1 year ago)	12 October 1999 (25 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 cores	1024	no data
Core clock speed	1452 MHz	125 MHz
Boost clock speed	2300 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	13,300 million	15 million
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	147.2	0.25
Floating-point processing power	9.421 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	2
TMUs	64	2
Ray Tracing Cores	16	no data

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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	AGP 4x
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None

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 type	GDDR6	SDR
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	16 MB
Memory bus width	96 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz	150 MHz
Memory bandwidth	216.0 GB/s	2.4 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 Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C	1x VGA
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	6.0
Shader Model	6.7	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.2
OpenCL	2.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.3	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	16 MB
Chip lithography	6 nm	250 nm

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