Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 44.16GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 500W)
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Jan 2007
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
690 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
44.16GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
2816
Shading Units
-
176
TMUs
12
64
ROPs
12
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.900 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.900 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
500W
TDP
130W
900 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
RV570
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
RV570 XT
(215PADAKA12FG)
GCN 2.0
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
0.33 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
230 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)
2.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
6.3
Shader Model
3.0
