Radeon HD 6870 vs Radeon X1700 SE
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
1120 additional rendering cores
Radeon X1700 SE 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 151W)
Score
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Nov 2007
Northern Islands
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
134.4GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
-
1120
Shading Units
-
56
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
8
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
28.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
50.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.000 GTexel/s
2.016 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
Board Design
151W
TDP
50W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Barts
GPU Name
RV560
Barts XT
(215-0798000)
GPU Variant
RV560 SE
TeraScale 2
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
0.33 billion
255 mm²
Die Size
230 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.4
OpenGL
2.1
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
Shader Model
3.0
