AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2

ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 290X2 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 12.48GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (41W vs 580W)

Score

Radeon R9 290X2

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Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Oct 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

390 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.48GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

-

176

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

580W

TDP

41W

950 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

Floppy

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV530

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

RV530 PRO (215CADAKA24FG)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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