Radeon X1600 PRO AGP vs Radeon R9 255 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1600 PRO AGP and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon X1600 PRO AGP Advantages
Lower TDP (41W vs 65W)
Radeon R9 255 OEM Advantages
Released 6 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock930MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (73.60GB/s vs 12.48GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Dec 2013
Radeon R500 AGP
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
930 MHz
390 MHz
Memory Clock
1150 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.48GB/s
Bandwidth
73.60GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
-
Shading Units
512
4
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.88 GPixel/s
2.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
29.76 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
952.3 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
59.52 GFLOPS
Board Design
41W
TDP
65W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
Floppy
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV530
GPU Name
Cape Verde
RV530 PRO
(215CADAKA24FG)
(215CADAKA24FG)
GPU Variant
Cape Verde PRX
R500
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
90 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.157 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
150 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
Shader Model
5.1
