Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition vs Radeon R5 230
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 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 10.67GB/s)
Radeon R5 230 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
160 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (19W vs 125W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2007
Release Date
Apr 2014
Radeon R500 PCIe
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
667 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR4
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
67.20GB/s
Bandwidth
10.67GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
-
Shading Units
160
16
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
10.72 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.500 GPixel/s
10.72 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.000 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
200.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
19W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 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
Caicos
R580+ XT
(215BAABKA31FG)
GPU Variant
Caicos PRO
R500
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
90 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.384 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
67 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
