AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs ATI Radeon X1600 XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6870 and ATI Radeon X1600 XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6870

• Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
• 21.4x more texture fill rate: 50.4 GTexel / s vs 2.36 GTexel / s
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
• 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
• 19.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2210 vs 116
• Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 413 vs 356
• Around 92% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3349 vs 1745
• Around 92% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3349 vs 1745

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1600 XT

• 3.6x lower typical power consumption: 42 Watt vs 151 Watt
• Around 31% higher memory clock speed: 1380 MHz vs 1050 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6870
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1600 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2210 116
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	413 356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3349 1745
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3349 1745

Compare specifications (specs)