AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile vs ATI Radeon X800 XL

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile and ATI Radeon X800 XL 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile

ATI Radeon X800 XL

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 2 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 110 nm
3.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 49 Watt
Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 343 vs 271
19x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1311 vs 69

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 February 2018 vs 1 December 2004
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 49 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	343 vs 271
PassMark - G3D Mark	1311 vs 69

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 XL

Around 33% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 300 MHz

Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X800 XL

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

343

271

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1311

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile	ATI Radeon X800 XL
PassMark - G2D Mark	343	271
PassMark - G3D Mark	1311	69
Geekbench - OpenCL	7126
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	744

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile	ATI Radeon X800 XL
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	R400
Code name	Raven	R430
Launch date	1 February 2018	1 December 2004
Place in performance rating	798	620
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1011 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	49 Watt
Transistor count	4,940 million	160 million
Texture fill rate		6.4 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	9.0b
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		31.36 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		980 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3