AMD Radeon RX 480 vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 RX 480 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (57W vs 150W)

Score

Radeon RX 480

VS

Radeon X1950 GT

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jan 2007

Arctic Islands

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

-

144

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

57W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

RV570

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

RV570 XL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

R500

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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