ATI Radeon X1600 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

ATI Radeon X1600

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1600 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 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 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1600

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Dec 2010

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

-

Shading Units

1536

4

TMUs

96

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.540 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

2.540 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

27W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV516

GPU Name

Cayman

-

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

R500

Architecture

TeraScale 3

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.107 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

2.1

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.0

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