AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

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AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1600 PRO AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.48GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (41W vs 150W)

Score

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

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Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Oct 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

390 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.48GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

41W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

Floppy

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

RV530

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

RV530 PRO (215CADAKA24FG)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

150 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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