ATI Radeon X1600 vs AMD Radeon 550X

VS

ATI Radeon X1600

AMD Radeon 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1600 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon X1600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1600

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Mar 2019

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1082 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

-

Shading Units

512

4

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.540 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

2.540 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Board Design

27W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV516

GPU Name

Lexa

-

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

R500

Architecture

GCN 4.0

UMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.107 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

3.0

Shader Model

6.4

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