ATI Radeon X1950 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (57W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1950 GT

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Sep 2014

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

600 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Shading Units

2048

12

TMUs

128

12

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

-

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

57W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV570

GPU Name

GM204

RV570 XL

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

R500

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

230 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

3.0

Shader Model

6.4

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