AMD Radeon R9 390 vs ATI Radeon X1700 SE

VS

AMD Radeon R9 390

ATI Radeon X1700 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 390 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1700 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 275W)

Score

Radeon R9 390

VS

Radeon X1700 SE

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Nov 2007

Pirate Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

-

160

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

160.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

5.120 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

640.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

Grenada

GPU Name

RV560

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

GPU Variant

RV560 SE

GCN 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

230 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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