ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP vs RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking480not rated
Place by popularity29not in top-100
Power efficiency42.03no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameVegaRV530
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)1 October 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 cores512no data
Core clock speedno data500 MHz
Boost clock speed2100 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data157 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt41 Watt
Texture fill rateno data2.000
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data4

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).

Interfaceno dataAGP 8x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataFloppy

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 typeno dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data256 MB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data390 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data12.48 GB/s
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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_19.0c (9_3)
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGLno data2.0
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 1 October 2007
Chip lithography 7 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 41 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has an age advantage of 12 years, a 1185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 173.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Radeon X1600 PRO AGP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook card while Radeon X1600 PRO AGP is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
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ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP
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