Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Radeon HD 2900 XT - video card comparison
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
Radeon HD 2900 XT
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
Vega
R600
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2020
May 2007
Interface
-
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
2100 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
743 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
475.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
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720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
320
Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
215 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
11.89
Memory type
-
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
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512 MB
Memory bus width
-
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
1656 MHz
Memory bandwidth
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106.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
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2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12_1
10.0 (10_0)
OpenCL
-
N/A
OpenGL
-
3.3
Shader Model
-
4.0
Vulkan
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N/A