ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R600 GT215
GPU variant R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG) GT215-450-A2
Architecture TeraScale Tesla 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 80 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 720 million 727 million
Die size 420 mm² 144 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Nov 6th, 2007 Apr 28th, 2011
Generation Radeon R600 GeForce 300
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 63 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R500 PCIe GeForce 200
Successor Radeon R700 GeForce 400

Clocks

GPU clock 601 MHz 506 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective 350 MHz 700 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1012 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 256 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR2
Memory bus width 256 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 51.20 GB/s 5.600 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 240 48
TMUs 12 16
ROPs 12 4
Compute units 3
Cache L2 128 KB 32 KB
SM count 6

Performance

Pixel rate 7.212 GPixel/s 2.024 GPixel/s
Texture rate 7.212 GTexel/s 8.096 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 288.5 GFLOPS 97.15 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Single-slot
TDP 150 W 33 W
Suggested PSU 450 W 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 1x DVI1x HDMI1x VGA
Power connectors 1x 8-pin None
Board number B002 P680
Length 168 mm 6.6 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 10.0 (10_0) 11.1 (10_1)
OpenGL 3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial) 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 4.0 4.1
CUDA 1.2

Other Features

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