AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) vs ATI Radeon X700

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) and ATI Radeon X700 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • 3.1x more core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 60300x more texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 110 nm
  • 64x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 128 MB
  • 16x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 500 MHz
Launch date 18 April 2017 vs 1 September 2004
Core clock speed 1257 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz vs 500 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X700

  • 4.2x lower typical power consumption: 44 Watt vs 185 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 44 Watt vs 185 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X700

Name AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) ATI Radeon X700
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3510
PassMark - G3D Mark 73
PassMark - G2D Mark 248

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) ATI Radeon X700

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 R400
Code name Polaris 20 RV410
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017 1 September 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $301.69
Place in performance rating 693 690
Price now $169.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 62.57

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1340 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1257 MHz 400 MHz
Floating-point performance 6.2 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 2304
Pixel fill rate 42.88 GP/s
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s 3.2 GTexel / s
Texture Units 144
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 185 Watt 44 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 120 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 9.0b
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 2.0
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s 8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz 500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready