Radeon X1800 XT and Radeon RX Vega 3 - video card comparison

Radeon X1800 XT

Radeon RX Vega 3

Architecture

R500 (2005−2007)

Vega (2017−2021)

GPU code name

R520

Vega Raven Ridge

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

October 2005

January 2018

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

-

1200 MHz

Core clock speed

600 MHz

600 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

321 million

4,940 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

192

Power consumption (TDP)

113 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

9.600

12.13

Memory type

GDDR3

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

System Shared

Memory bus width

256 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

1400 MHz

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

44.8 GB/s

-

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

No outputs

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (12_1)

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

2.0

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131