AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 44.16GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 580W)

Score

Radeon R9 290X2

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Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

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

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

690 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

44.16GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

-

176

TMUs

12

64

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.900 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.900 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

580W

TDP

130W

950 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV570

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

438 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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