AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs ATI Radeon X1700 SE

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

ATI Radeon X1700 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM 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 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1700 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

Score

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

Radeon X1700 SE

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Nov 2007

Sea Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV560

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

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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