Radeon HD 2900 XTX and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti - video card comparison

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

R600

Ampere GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

May 2021

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1770 MHz

Core clock speed

743 MHz

1575 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

720 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

6144

Power consumption (TDP)

240 Watt

290 Watt

Texture fill rate

11.89

339.8

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1656 MBps

19000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

106.0 GB/s

608.3 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

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

3.3 (full) Shader Model

4.06.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.2