ATI Radeon X1950 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

VS

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

ATI Radeon HD 5550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 57W)

Score

Radeon X1950 GT

VS

Radeon HD 5550

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Feb 2010

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

600 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

Shading Units

320

12

TMUs

16

12

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

352.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

57W

TDP

39W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV570

GPU Name

Redwood

RV570 XL

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO2

R500

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

230 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.0

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