AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs ATI Radeon X1700 SE

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AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 ATI Radeon X1700 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1700 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 375W)

Score

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

Radeon X1700 SE

Graphics Card

Unknown

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

-

96

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

RV560

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

RV560 SE

TeraScale 3

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

50W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

3x 8-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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