Radeon 780M vs ATI X1600 XT Dual

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated298
Place by popularitynot in top-10047
Power efficiencyno data85.22
ArchitectureUltra-Threaded SE (2005−2007)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameRV530Hawx Point
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)6 December 2023 (less than a year 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 coresno data768
Core clock speed590 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2700 MHz
Number of transistors157 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate2.360129.6
Floating-point processing powerno data8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs448
Ray Tracing Coresno data12

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x MolexNone

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1380 MBpsSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth22.08 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 Connectors2x DVIPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model3.06.8
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 90 nm 4 nm

Radeon 780M has a 2150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X1600 XT Dual and Radeon 780M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon X1600 XT Dual is a desktop card while Radeon 780M is a notebook one.


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ATI Radeon X1600 XT Dual
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