Radeon HD 2900 XT and GT218 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 2900 XT

GT218

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

R600

GT218

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

May 2007

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Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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Core clock speed

743 MHz

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Floating-point performance

475.5 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

720 million

260 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

16

Power consumption (TDP)

215 Watt

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Texture fill rate

11.89

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Memory type

GDDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

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Memory bus width

512 Bit

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Memory clock speed

1656 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

106.0 GB/s

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Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

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DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

11.1 (10_1)

CUDA

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1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

OpenGL

3.3

3.3

Shader Model

4.0

4.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

PureVideo HD

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VP4