ATI Radeon X1700 SE vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

ATI Radeon X1700 SE

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon X1700 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1700 SE

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Nov 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

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

-

Shading Units

1408

8

TMUs

88

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

4.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV560

GPU Name

Cayman

RV560 SE

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

R500

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

230 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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