3D Rage IIC PCI vs Radeon R9 295X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2MB VRAM 3D Rage IIC PCI and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 17 years late
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 0.664GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 1997
Release Date
Apr 2014
Rage 2
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
83 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2MB
Memory Size
4GB
SDR
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
512bit
0.664GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
-
Shading Units
2816
1
TMUs
176
1
ROPs
64
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
60.00 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.15 GPixel/s
60.00 MTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.2 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
5.733 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
716.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
500W
200 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
-
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Rage IIC
GPU Name
Vesuvius
Rage IIC PCI
(215R2PZUA21)
GPU Variant
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
Rage 2
Architecture
GCN 2.0
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
500 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.005 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
39 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
5.0
DirectX
12 (12_0)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
Shader Model
6.3
