AMD Radeon R9 280X vs ATI Radeon X1600

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

ATI Radeon X1600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 250W)

Score

Radeon R9 280X

VS

Radeon X1600

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.540 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.540 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

27W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV516

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

100 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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