ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

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ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT AGP and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 180W)

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1950 GT AGP

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Feb 2007

Release Date

Oct 2013

Radeon R500 AGP

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 8x

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

600 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

-

Shading Units

1280

12

TMUs

80

12

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV570

GPU Name

Curacao

RV570 XL

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

R500

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

230 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

57W

TDP

180W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x Molex

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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