Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition 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 67.20GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W 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
1050 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR4
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
67.20GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
2816
Shading Units
-
176
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.72 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.72 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
500W
TDP
125W
900 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VHDCI
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
R580+
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
R580+ XT
(215BAABKA31FG)
GCN 2.0
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
90 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
0.384 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
352 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
