AMD Radeon R7 260X vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X 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 R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (57W vs 115W)

Score

Radeon R7 260X

VS

Radeon X1950 GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

-

56

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

115W

TDP

57W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

RV570

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

RV570 XL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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