AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs ATI Radeon X1600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 210W)

Score

Radeon RX Vega 56

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Radeon X1600

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Jan 2007

Vega

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

-

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

HBM2

Memory Type

DDR2

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

-

224

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.540 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.540 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

RV516

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 5.0

Architecture

R500

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

UMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

27W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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

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