Calling a Spade a Spade
by Derek Wilsonon May 14, 2007 12:04 PM EST
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IndexDX10 ReduxR600 OverviewDifferent Types of Stream ProcessorsStream Processor ImplementationNext Up: NVIDIA’s G80Texturing, Caches and MemoryFinally: A Design House Talks Cache SizeMemory and Data MovementBeyond the Shader: Coloring PixelsCFAA and No Fixed Resolve HardwareTesselation and the FutureThe New Video Decode Pipeline: UVDAMD CFAA Performance and Image QualityGeneral Image QualityThe AMD HD 2000 Series LineupSapphire’s HD 2900 XTPower Supply RequirementsBattlefield 2 PerformanceThe Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion PerformancePrey PerformanceRainbow Six: Vegas PerformanceS.T.A.L.K.E.R. PerformanceSupreme Commander PerformanceMulti-GPU Performance — Battlefield 2Multi-GPU Performance — OblivionMulti-GPU Performance — PreyMulti-GPU Performance — Rainbow Six: VegasMulti-GPU Performance — S. T.A.L.K.E.R.Power ConsumptionFinal Words
While AMD will tell us that R600 is not late and hasn’t been delayed, this is simply because they never actually set a public date from which to be delayed. We all know that AMD would rather have seen their hardware hit the streets at or around the time Vista launched, or better yet, alongside G80. But the fact is that AMD had quite a few problems in getting R600 out the door.
While we couldn’t really get the whole story from anyone, we heard bits and pieces here and there during our three day briefing event in Tunis, Tunisia. These conversations were short and scattered and not the kind of thing that it’s easy to get a straight answer about when asking direct questions. Keeping that in mind, we do have some information and speculation about a few of the road bumps AMD faced with R600.
Apparently, the first spin of R600 silicon could only communicate over the debugging interface. While the upside is that the chip wasn’t totally dead, this is not a good problem to have.
We also overheard that a later revision of the hardware suffered from fragments getting stuck in pixel shaders. We even overheard one conversation where someone jokingly remarked that AMD should design hardware but leave the execution to NVIDIA.
In a wild bout of pure speculation on our part, we would have to guess about one other problem that popped up during R600’s creation. It seems to us that AMD was unable to get their MSAA hardware to work properly and was forced to use shader hardware to handle MSAA rather than go back for yet another silicon revision. Please know that this is not a confirmed fact, but just an educated guess.
In another unique move, there is no high end part in AMD’s R600 lineup. The Radeon HD 2900 XT is the highest end graphics card in the lineup and it’s priced at $399. While we appreciate AMD’s intent to keep prices in check, the justification is what we have an issue with. According to AMD, it loses money on high end parts which is why we won’t see anything more expensive than the 2900 XT this time around.
The real story is that AMD would lose money on a high end part if it wasn’t competitive, which is why we feel that there’s nothing more expensive than the 2900 XT. It’s not a huge deal because the number of people buying > $399 graphics cards is limited, but before we’ve started the review AMD is already giving up ground to NVIDIA, which isn’t a good sign.
More than anything, we’d guess that the lack of a high end part has a lot to do with the delays and struggles AMD saw this time around in bringing R600 to market. We expect to see the return of a very high end part by the time R700 comes around, assuming that there aren’t similarly debilitating delays.
The delays and lack of a high end would be beyond perfect if the Radeon HD 2900 XT could do to NVIDIA what the G80 launch did to ATI, unfortunately the picture just isn’t that rosy. ATI’s latest and greatest doesn’t exactly deliver the best performance per watt, so while it doesn’t compete performance-wise with the GeForce 8800 GTX it requires more power.
An ultra high end power requirement in a sub-$400 graphics card isn’t exactly ideal.
Despite all of this, there’s a great deal of cool technology in the R600, and as ATI is now a part of a CPU company, we received more detail on the GPU than we’ve gotten during any other GPU launch. AMD takes graphics very seriously, and it recently reaffirmed its commitment to continue to deliver high end discrete graphics cards, so amidst countless delays and rumors of strange problems, the R600 architecture is quite possibly more important to AMD than the graphics cards themselves. An eventual derivative of this architecture will be used in AMD’s Fusion processors, eventually making their way into a heterogeneous multi-core AMD microprocessor.
With AMD’s disappointing Q1, it can’t rest too much on the hope of Fusion changing the market, so we’ll have to start by looking at where R600 is today and how it stacks up to NVIDIA’s latest and almost greatest.
DX10 Redux
IndexDX10 ReduxR600 OverviewDifferent Types of Stream ProcessorsStream Processor ImplementationNext Up: NVIDIA’s G80Texturing, Caches and MemoryFinally: A Design House Talks Cache SizeMemory and Data MovementBeyond the Shader: Coloring PixelsCFAA and No Fixed Resolve HardwareTesselation and the FutureThe New Video Decode Pipeline: UVDAMD CFAA Performance and Image QualityGeneral Image QualityThe AMD HD 2000 Series LineupSapphire’s HD 2900 XTPower Supply RequirementsBattlefield 2 PerformanceThe Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion PerformancePrey PerformanceRainbow Six: Vegas PerformanceS.
T.A.L.K.E.R. PerformanceSupreme Commander PerformanceMulti-GPU Performance — Battlefield 2Multi-GPU Performance — OblivionMulti-GPU Performance — PreyMulti-GPU Performance — Rainbow Six: VegasMulti-GPU Performance — S.T.A.L.K.E.R.Power ConsumptionFinal Words
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Radeon HD 2900 XT [in 1 benchmark]
Summary
ATI started Radeon HD 2900 XT sales 14 May 2007 at a recommended price of $399. This is a TeraScale architecture desktop card based on 80 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.66 GHz are supplied, and together with 512 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 106.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 241 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 215 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at
1.
68%
of a leader’s which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
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General info
Some basic facts about Radeon HD 2900 XT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 845 | |
| Architecture | TeraScale (2005−2013) | |
| GPU code name | R600 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 14 May 2007 (16 years old) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $399 |
Technical specs
Radeon HD 2900 XT’s specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 2900 XT’s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 320 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 743 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 720 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 80 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 215 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 11.89 | of 969.9 (h200 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 475.5 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 2900 XT and its compatibility with other computer components.
This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Length | 241 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 2900 XT: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 512 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1656 MHz | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Memory bandwidth | 106. 0 GB/s |
of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 2900 XT. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon HD 2900 XT, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 10.0 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 2900 XT.
The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
ATI HD 2900 XT
1.68
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
ATI HD 2900 XT
659
Gaming performance
Let’s see how good Radeon HD 2900 XT is for gaming.
Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Radeon HD 2900 XT’s performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.
AMD Radeon R8 M535DX
101.79
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
101.19
NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM
100.6
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
100
AMD FireStream 9170
98.21
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
97.62
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 OEM
97.02
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 2900 XT is GeForce GT 640 OEM, which is faster by 1% and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.
GeForce GT640 OEM
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Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon HD 2900 XT:
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630
103.57
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
101.19
NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM
100.6
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
100
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
97.62
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 OEM
97.02
NVIDIA GeForce GT 710
96.43
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon HD 2900 XT according to our statistics.
Xeon E5
2420
5.7%
Core 2
Extreme QX9650
5.7%
Phenom X3
8450
3.8%
Core 2
Duo E6550
3.8%
Core i5
10400F
3.8%
Pentium
E5300
1.9%
Phenom X3
8600
1.9%
Ryzen 5
3550H
1.9%
Core i5
2300
1.9%
E1
1500
1.
9%
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| Name | Radeon HD 2900 XT |
|---|---|
| Core | R600 |
| nm | 80 |
| Transistors, mln | 720 |
| Core frequency, MHz | 740 |
| Shader unit frequency, MHz | 740 |
| Shader units | 320 |
| TMU | 16 (total) | ROP | 16 |
| Memory frequency (DDR), MHz | 825 (1650) |
| Memory bus | GDDR3 512 Bit |
| Memory size | 512/1024 |
| Memory bandwidth, GB/s 90 056 | 105. 6 |
| Textures per clock | 16 |
| Textures per Pass | 16 |
| Shaders Model | 4.0 |
| Fill Rate, Mpix/s 900 56 | 11840 |
| Fill Rate, Mtex/s | 11840 |
| Smoothing (Max) | MS-24x |
| Anisotropic Filtering (Max) | 16x Quality |
| DirectX | 10.0 |
| RAMDAC | 2×400 |
| Interface | PCI-E |
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Radeon HD 2900 XT [in 1 benchmark]
Description
ATI started Radeon HD 2900 XT sales on May 14, 2007 at a suggested price of $399. This is a desktop video card based on the TeraScale architecture and 80 nm manufacturing process, primarily designed for office use. It has 512 MB of GDDR3 memory at 1.66 GHz, and coupled with a 512-bit interface, this creates a bandwidth of 106.0 Gb / s.
In terms of compatibility, this is a dual-slot PCIe 1.0 x16 card.
The length of the reference version is 241 mm. The connection requires one 6-pin cable and one 8-pin cable, and the power consumption is 215W.
It provides poor performance in tests and games at the level of
1.68%
from the leader, which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
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General information
Information about the type (desktop or laptop) and architecture of the Radeon HD 2900 XT, as well as when sales started and cost at that time.
Features
Radeon HD 2900 XT’s general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed.
They indirectly talk about the performance of the Radeon HD 2900 XT, but for an accurate assessment it is necessary to consider the results of benchmarks and gaming tests.
| Number of stream processors | 320 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| 743 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) | |
| Number of transistors | 720 million | out of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI (mobile)) |
| Process | 80 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| 215 W | out of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) | |
| Texturing speed | 11.89 | of 969.9 (h200 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating point performance | 475. 5 gflops |
of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Compatibility and dimensions
Information on Radeon HD 2900 XT compatibility with other computer components. Useful for example when choosing the configuration of a future computer or to upgrade an existing one. For desktop video cards, these are the interface and connection bus (compatibility with the motherboard), the physical dimensions of the video card (compatibility with the motherboard and case), additional power connectors (compatibility with the power supply).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Length | 902 27 241 mm | |
| Thickness | 2 slots | |
| Additional connectors power supply | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
RAM
Parameters installed on Radeon HD 2900 XT memory — type, size, bus, frequency and bandwidth.
For video cards built into the processor that do not have their own memory, a shared part of the RAM is used.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum memory | 902 27 512 MB | out of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 512 bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory frequency | 1656 MHz | 902 27 of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Memory Bandwidth | 106.0 Gb/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 2900 XT. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for laptop ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
| Video connectors | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
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APIs supported for Radeon HD 2900 XT, including their revisions.
| DirectX | 10.0 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | ||
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Tests in benchmarks
These are the results of Radeon HD 2900 XT rendering performance tests in non-gaming benchmarks. The overall score is set from 0 to 100, where 100 corresponds to the fastest video card at the moment.
Overall benchmark performance
This is our overall performance rating. We regularly improve our algorithms, but if you find any inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in the comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
ATI HD 2900XT
1.68
Passmark
This is a very common benchmark included in the Passmark PerformanceTest package.
He gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation by running four separate tests for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the latter is done in 4K resolution if possible), and a few more tests using DirectCompute.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
ATI HD 2900XT
659
Radeon HD 2900 XT in games
FPS in popular games on the Radeon HD 2900 XT, as well as compliance with system requirements. Remember that the official requirements of the developers do not always match the data of real tests.
Relative performance
Radeon HD 2900 XT overall performance compared to its nearest desktop counterparts.
AMD Radeon R8 M535DX
101.79
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
101.19
NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM
100.6
ATI Radeon HD 2900XT
100
AMD FireStream 9170
98.
21
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
97.62
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 OEM
97.02
Competitor from NVIDIA
The closest competitor of Radeon HD 2900 XT from NVIDIA is GeForce GT 640 OEM, which is 1% faster on average and higher by 2 positions in our rating.
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Here are some of NVIDIA’s closest competitors to the Radeon HD 2900 XT:
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630
103.57
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
101.19
NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM
100.6
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
100
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
97.62
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 OEM
97.02
NVIDIA GeForce GT 710
96.43
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Recommended Processors
Based on our statistics, these processors are most commonly used with the Radeon HD 2900 XT.
Xeon E5
2420
5.7%
Core 2
Extreme QX9650
5.7%
Phenom X3
8450
3.8%
Core 2
Duo E6550
3.8%
Core i5
10400F
3.8%
Pentium
E5300
1.9%
Phenom X3
8600
1.9%
Ryzen 5
3550H
1.