ATI Radeon X1950 GT vs AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8490 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

160 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 57W)

Score

Radeon X1950 GT

VS

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Jul 2013

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

600 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

-

Shading Units

160

12

TMUs

8

12

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.500 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.000 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

280.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

57W

TDP

35W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV570

GPU Name

Caicos

RV570 XL

GPU Variant

Caicos XTX

R500

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

230 mm²

Die Size

67 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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