Radeon HD 3870 X2 and Radeon HD 2900 PRO - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3870 X2 vs Radeon HD 2900 PRO
Radeon HD 3870 X2
729
Radeon HD 2900 PRO
646
Radeon HD 3870 X2
Radeon HD 2900 PRO
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
R680
R600
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2008
December 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
825 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 528.0 gflops
384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
320
Power consumption (TDP)
165 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
13.20
9.600
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1802 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.66 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
10.0 (10_0)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A