AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs ATI Radeon X1600 XT Dual

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM ATI Radeon X1600 XT Dual

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1600 XT Dual to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 22.08GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

Radeon X1600 XT Dual

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Sea Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

690 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

22.08GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.360 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.360 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV530

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

Unknown

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

2

AMD Radeon RX 560 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3

ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

4

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

5

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

7

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

8

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

9

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6670

10

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon PRO W6400