Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition vs Radeon HD 8550 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (67.20GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
Radeon HD 8550 OEM 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
480 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 125W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2007
Release Date
Oct 2013
Radeon R500 PCIe
Generation
Sea Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
67.20GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
-
Shading Units
480
16
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
8
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
10.72 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.200 GPixel/s
10.72 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
624.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
60W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VHDCI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
R580+
GPU Name
Turks
R580+ XT
(215BAABKA31FG)
GPU Variant
Turks PRO
(215-0803002)
R500
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
90 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.384 billion
Transistors
0.716 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.4
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
Shader Model
5.0
