AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs ATI Radeon X1700 SE

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

ATI Radeon X1700 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1700 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 185W)

Score

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

Radeon X1700 SE

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Nov 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

-

96

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

185W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV560

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

RV560 SE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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