AMD Radeon 550X vs ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

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AMD Radeon 550X ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X 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

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 67.20GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 125W)

Score

Radeon 550X

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Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

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

1050 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

67.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

-

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.72 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.72 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

R580+

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

R580+ XT (215BAABKA31FG)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

R500

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.384 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

125W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VHDCI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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