AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8490 OEM 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 HD 8490 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

160 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 57W)

ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

VS

Radeon X1950 GT

Graphics Card

Jul 2013

Release Date

Jan 2007

Sea Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

160

Shading Units

-

8

TMUs

12

4

ROPs

12

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

3.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

7.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

280.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

57W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Caicos

GPU Name

RV570

Caicos XTX

GPU Variant

RV570 XL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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