AMD Radeon R9 285 vs ATI Radeon X1600

VS

AMD Radeon R9 285

ATI Radeon X1600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 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 285 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 190W)

Score

Radeon R9 285

VS

Radeon X1600

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

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

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

-

112

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.540 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.540 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

190W

TDP

27W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

RV516

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

3.0

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