ATI Radeon X1700 SE vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon X1700 SE

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1700 SE

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Jan 2013

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

-

Shading Units

1792

8

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

4.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV560

GPU Name

Tahiti

RV560 SE

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

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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