AMD Radeon R9 280X vs ATI Radeon X1650 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 128MB VRAM Radeon X1650 GT 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 5 months late
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
May 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
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/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
32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.200 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.200 GTexel/s
-
-
-
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
Unknown
600 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 + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
RV560
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GPU Variant
RV560 GT
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ultra-Threaded SE
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.312 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
