ATI Radeon X1600 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

ATI Radeon X1600

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1600 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1600

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Mar 2014

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

827 MHz

-

Boost Clock

933 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

-

Shading Units

1792

4

TMUs

112

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.540 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

2.540 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

27W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV516

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

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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