ATI Radeon X1600 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

ATI Radeon X1600

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1600 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT 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 185W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1600

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Nov 2012

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

-

Shading Units

1536

4

TMUs

96

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.540 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

2.540 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

27W

TDP

185W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV516

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

R500

Architecture

GCN 1.0

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.107 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

100 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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