AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs ATI Radeon X800 GT AGP

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AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM ATI Radeon X800 GT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 256MB VRAM Radeon X800 GT AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 31.55GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X800 GT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 200W)

Score

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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Radeon X800 GT AGP

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Nov 2007

Sea Islands

Generation

Radeon R400 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

493 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

31.55GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

-

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.784 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.784 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

R420

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

R420 GT (215RAACGA12F)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

R400

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.16 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

281 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

40W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0b (9_2)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

-

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