ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP

AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT AGP and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (57W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1950 GT AGP

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Feb 2007

Release Date

Dec 2011

Radeon R500 AGP

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 8x

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

600 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

Shading Units

2048

12

TMUs

128

12

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

57W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x Molex

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV570

GPU Name

Tahiti

RV570 XL

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

R500

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

230 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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