Radeon RX 480 and Radeon HD 2900 PRO - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon HD 2900 PRO
Radeon RX 480
8883
Radeon HD 2900 PRO
646
Radeon RX 480
Radeon HD 2900 PRO
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Ellesmere
R600
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2016
December 2007
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-
Boost clock speed
1266 MHz
-
Compute units
36
-
Core clock speed
1120 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,834 gflops
384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
320
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
182.3
9.600
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
2.0
-
DisplayPort support
1.4HDR
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
10.0 (10_0)
Mantle
n/a
-
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
3.3
Shader Model
6.4
4.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
AppAcceleration
n/a
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
n/a
-
FreeSync
+
-
FRTC
1
-
HD3D
n/a
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
+
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
n/a
-
UVD
+
-
VCE
+
-
ZeroCore
+
-