ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO vs ATI Radeon X1800 GTO²

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO and ATI Radeon X1800 GTO² videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 20% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • Around 60% higher texture fill rate: 9.6 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 90 nm
  • Around 62% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 990 MHz
  • 4.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 628 vs 141
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 December 2007 vs 1 March 2006
Core clock speed 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 9.6 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm vs 90 nm
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 990 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 628 vs 141

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1800 GTO²

  • Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 415 vs 397
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 415 vs 397

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1800 GTO²

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
628
141
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
397
415
Name ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO ATI Radeon X1800 GTO²
PassMark - G3D Mark 628 141
PassMark - G2D Mark 397 415

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO ATI Radeon X1800 GTO²

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale R500
Code name R600 R520
Launch date 12 December 2007 1 March 2006
Place in performance rating 386 383
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 80 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 320
Texture fill rate 9.6 GTexel / s 6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 200 Watt
Transistor count 720 million 321 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 241 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 10.0 9.0c
OpenGL 3.3 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 118.4 GB / s 31.7 GB / s
Memory bus width 512 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 990 MHz
Memory type GDDR4 GDDR3