AMD Radeon R9 390X vs ATI Radeon X1700 FSC

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390X and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1700 FSC to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 390X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 22.24GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1700 FSC 's Advantages

Lower TDP (44W vs 275W)

Score

Radeon R9 390X

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Radeon X1700 FSC

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

695 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.24GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

-

176

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

67.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.348 GPixel/s

184.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.348 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.914 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

739.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

RV535

Grenada XT (215-0880004)

GPU Variant

RV535 FSC

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

131 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

44W

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 Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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