ATI Radeon X1950 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

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ATI Radeon X1950 GT

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 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 228W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1950 GT

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Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Jun 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

1195 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

153.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

Shading Units

1600

12

TMUs

80

12

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

57W

TDP

228W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV570

GPU Name

Cypress

RV570 XL

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

R500

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

230 mm²

Die Size

334 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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