AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop) vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop) and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 25% higher core clock speed: 926 MHz vs 743 MHz
  • 13x more texture fill rate: 154.4 GTexel / s vs 11.89 GTexel / s
  • 6.4x more pipelines: 2048 vs 320
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 80 nm
  • Around 79% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 215 Watt
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
  • 4x more memory clock speed: 6600 MHz vs 1656 MHz
  • 12.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8001 vs 660
  • Around 83% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 725 vs 397
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 August 2016 vs 14 May 2007
Core clock speed 926 MHz vs 743 MHz
Texture fill rate 154.4 GTexel / s vs 11.89 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 320
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt vs 215 Watt
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 6600 MHz vs 1656 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 8001 vs 660
PassMark - G2D Mark 725 vs 397

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

  • 97x better floating-point performance: 475.5 gflops vs 4.9 TFLOPs
Floating-point performance 475.5 gflops vs 4.9 TFLOPs

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8001
660
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
725
397
Name AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop) ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark 8001 660
PassMark - G2D Mark 725 397
Geekbench - OpenCL 33844
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 111.543
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1817.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 9.511
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 99.875
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 511.362
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2443
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1674
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2443
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1674
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3675

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop) ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 TeraScale
Code name Ellesmere R600
Design Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 4 August 2016 14 May 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $179 $399
Place in performance rating 384 381
Price now $109.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 100.00

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1206 MHz
Compute units 32
Core clock speed 926 MHz 743 MHz
Floating-point performance 4.9 TFLOPs 475.5 gflops
GPU Power 85-110 Watt
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 2048 320
Stream Processors 2048
Texture fill rate 154.4 GTexel / s 11.89 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 215 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 720 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 241 mm 241 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 10.0
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 211 GB/s 106.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 6600 MHz 1656 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
CrossFire
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 2.0b
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore