Radeon RX 6700S vs ATI FireGL X2-256

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated117
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data33.84
ArchitectureRage 9 (2003−2006)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameR360Navi 23
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date1 March 2003 (21 year ago)4 January 2022 (2 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 coresno data1792
Core clock speed380 MHz1700 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2000 MHz
Number of transistors117 million11,060 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data80 Watt
Texture fill rate3.040224.0
Floating-point processing powerno data7.168 TFLOPS
ROPs864
TMUs8112
Ray Tracing Coresno data28

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 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 typeDDR2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed350 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/s224.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2003 4 January 2022
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 7 nm

RX 6700S has an age advantage of 18 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2042.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FireGL X2-256 and Radeon RX 6700S. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FireGL X2-256 is a workstation card while Radeon RX 6700S is a notebook one.


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