AMD Radeon RX 580 vs ATI Radeon X1600

VS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 185W)

Score

Radeon RX 580

VS

Radeon X1600

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2007

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

-

144

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.540 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.540 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

RV516

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

R500

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

UMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

27W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

2

AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon RX 570

3

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs AMD Radeon RX 580

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs AMD Radeon RX 580

5

AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon RX 580

7

AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

8

AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon HD 6290

9

AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

10

AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

Related News

1

NVIDIA Grace CPU Benchmark Results Released, Stunning Performance

2

Minisforum Launches UM890 Pro Mini PC with R9 8945HS and Dual USB4 Ports

3

Does the Apple A18 Neural Engine Boast Superior Performance? Computational Power May Surpass M4 Chip

4

AMD's Commitment to Pioneering Each Generation with Cutting-Edge Process Technology and Continuous Innovation in Design, Packaging, and Assembly

5

NVIDIA to Ramp Up Orders and Add New Suppliers to Meet Explosive Demand for Blackwell Products

6

NVIDIA Informs Brands of Reduced Supply for RTX 40 Series GPUs

7

Only 3 Weeks Left! AMD Zen5 Launching Soon

8

Ilya Departs OpenAI to Launch New Company Aiming at Superintelligence!

9

Comprehensive Overview of AMD Ryzen 9000 Zen5 Desktop CPUs

10

Intel May Increase Base Frequencies for Arrow Lake-S / H / HX, High-End Chips to Reach 3GHz or Higher