ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1600 PRO AGP and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM 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 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

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 8990 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2007

Release Date

Apr 2013

Radeon R500 AGP

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 8x

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 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

32.00 GPixel/s

2.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

41W

TDP

375W

200 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Floppy

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV530

GPU Name

Malta

RV530 PRO (215CADAKA24FG)

GPU Variant

Malta XT (215-0849026)

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

365 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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