Radeon X1600 vs Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1600 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon X1600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (27W vs 228W)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1600 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2007
Release Date
Mar 2010
Radeon R500 PCIe
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1600
4
TMUs
80
4
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.540 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
2.540 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
27W
TDP
228W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV516
GPU Name
Cypress
-
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
R500
Architecture
TeraScale 2
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.107 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
100 mm²
Die Size
334 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
