NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 11GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1582MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (484.4GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

3264 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +2282%

11.34 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

Graphics Card

Mar 2017

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1481 MHz

Base Clock

-

1582 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

11GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR3

352bit

Memory Bus

512bit

484.4GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

3584

Shading Units

320

224

TMUs

16

88

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

0 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

139.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

354.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

177.2 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

11.34 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

354.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP102

GPU Name

R600

GP102-350-K1-A1

GPU Variant

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

80 nm

11.8 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

471 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

215W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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