ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1600 PRO AGP and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (41W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 12.48GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Jun 2012

Radeon R500 AGP

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 8x

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

390 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

12.48GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

Shading Units

2048

4

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

2.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Board Design

41W

TDP

300W

200 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

Floppy

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV530

GPU Name

Tahiti

RV530 PRO (215CADAKA24FG)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

R500

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

90 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.157 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

150 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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