AMD Radeon 550X vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT

VS

AMD Radeon 550X

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 57W)

Score

Radeon 550X

VS

Radeon X1950 GT

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Jan 2007

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

-

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

-

32

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

57W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

RV570

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

RV570 XL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

R500

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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