ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs ATI Radeon X1700 SE

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

ATI Radeon X1700 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (106.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1700 SE 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 215W)

Score

Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

Radeon X1700 SE

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Nov 2007

Radeon R600

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

828 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

8

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

215W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

RV560

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

RV560 SE

TeraScale

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

2.1

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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