AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 and ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 3 month(s) later
4.9x more core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 183 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 180 nm
64x more maximum memory size: 2x 1 GB vs 32 MB
11.5x more memory clock speed: 4200 MHz vs 366 MHz

Launch date	8 July 2011 vs 14 March 2004
Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	2x 1 GB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	4200 MHz vs 366 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition

2.2x more texture fill rate: 549 MTexel / s vs 2x 50.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
13x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 300 Watt

Texture fill rate	549 MTexel / s vs 2x 50.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 300 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2	ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.807

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2	ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Rage 6
Code name	Barts	RV100
Launch date	8 July 2011	14 March 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$520
Place in performance rating	1613	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	900 MHz	183 MHz
Floating-point performance	2x 2,016.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	180 nm
Pipelines	2x 1120
Texture fill rate	2x 50.4 GTexel / s billion / sec	549 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	1,700 million	30 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	304 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	7.0
OpenGL	4.4	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 1 GB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	2x 134.4 GB / s	2.928 GB / s
Memory bus width	2x 256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	4200 MHz	366 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR