ATI Radeon X1650 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

ATI Radeon X1650

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1650 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1650

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Nov 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

256MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

6.400GB/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

Unknown

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 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)

Ultra-Threaded SE

Architecture

GCN 1.0

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

90 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.105 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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