AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6990 ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1600 PRO AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6990 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 12.48GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (41W vs 375W)

Score

Radeon HD 6990

VS

Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Oct 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

390 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.48GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

-

96

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

26.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

79.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.550 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

637.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

RV530

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

RV530 PRO (215CADAKA24FG)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

41W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

Floppy

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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