ATI Radeon X1700 SE vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

ATI Radeon X1700 SE

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 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 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1700 SE

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Jun 2012

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

Shading Units

2048

8

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

4.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV560

GPU Name

Tahiti

RV560 SE

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

R500

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

230 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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