Radeon RX 7700 XT vs Riva TNT2 Ultra

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated39
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data71.30
Power efficiencyno data16.33
ArchitectureFahrenheit (1998−2000)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV5 B5Navi 32
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date15 March 1999 (25 years ago)25 August 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 $449

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 coresno data3456
Core clock speed150 MHz1435 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2544 MHz
Number of transistors15 million28,100 million
Manufacturing process technology250 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data245 Watt
Texture fill rate0.3549.5
Floating-point processing powerno data35.17 TFLOPS
ROPs296
TMUs2216
Ray Tracing Coresno data54

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).

InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 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 typeSDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount32 MB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed183 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth2.928 GB/s432.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 Connectors1x VGA, 2x S-Video1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX6.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.24.6
OpenCLN/A2.2
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 March 1999 25 August 2023
Maximum RAM amount 32 MB 12 GB
Chip lithography 250 nm 5 nm

RX 7700 XT has an age advantage of 24 years, a 38300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 4900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Riva TNT2 Ultra and Radeon RX 7700 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Riva TNT2 Ultra
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