ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs ATI Radeon X1600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 188W)

Score

Radeon HD 5870

VS

Radeon X1600

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Jan 2007

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.540 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.540 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

RV516

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

188W

TDP

27W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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