Radeon X1600 PRO AGP vs Radeon R9 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1600 PRO AGP and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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 200W)
Radeon R9 280 Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 12.48GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Oct 2007
Release Date
Mar 2014
Radeon R500 AGP
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
827 MHz
-
Boost Clock
933 MHz
390 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
12.48GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
-
Shading Units
1792
4
TMUs
112
4
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
2.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
41W
TDP
200W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Floppy
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV530
GPU Name
Tahiti
RV530 PRO
(215CADAKA24FG)
(215CADAKA24FG)
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
(215-0821330)
R500
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
90 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.157 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
150 mm²
Die Size
352 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
