Radeon HD 2900 XT and GeForce RTX 3070 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 2900 XT vs GeForce RTX 3070
Radeon HD 2900 XT
679
GeForce RTX 3070
23060
Radeon HD 2900 XT
GeForce RTX 3070
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
R600
Ampere GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2007
September 2020
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1725 MHz
Core clock speed
743 MHz
1500 MHz
Floating-point performance
475.5 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
720 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
5888
Power consumption (TDP)
215 Watt
220 Watt
Texture fill rate
11.89
317.4
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1656 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
106.0 GB/s
448.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.5
OpenCL
N/A
2.0
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2