NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (57W vs 165W)

Score

GeForce GTX 980

VS

Radeon X1950 GT AGP

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Feb 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon R500 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

12

64

ROPs

12

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

165W

TDP

57W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x Molex

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

RV570

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

RV570 XL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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