AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs ATI Radeon X1600

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

ATI Radeon X1600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 375W)

Score

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

Radeon X1600

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

-

96

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.540 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.540 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

375W

TDP

27W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

RV516

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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