ATI Radeon X1600 SE vs Arc A580

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	184	not rated
Place by popularity	82	not in top-100
Power efficiency	11.94	no data
Architecture	Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)	Ultra-Threaded SE (2005−2007)
GPU code name	DG2-512	RV515
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	10 October 2023 (1 year ago)	2007 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	3072	no data
Core clock speed	1700 MHz	635 MHz
Boost clock speed	2000 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	21,700 million	107 million
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	175 Watt	27 Watt
Texture fill rate	384.0	2.540
Floating-point processing power	12.29 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	96	4
TMUs	192	4
Tensor Cores	384	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	24	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR6	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	256 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	500 MBps
Memory bandwidth	512.0 GB/s	8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	6.6	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
OpenCL	3.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.3	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	256 MB
Chip lithography	6 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	175 Watt	27 Watt

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