ATI Radeon X1600 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

ATI Radeon X1600

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1600 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1600

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Jun 2014

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

-

Shading Units

2816

4

TMUs

176

4

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.540 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

2.540 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

27W

TDP

580W

200 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV516

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

R500

Architecture

GCN 2.0

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.107 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

3.0

Shader Model

6.3

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