ATI Radeon X1950 GT vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1950 GT

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Jun 2014

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

600 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

-

Shading Units

2816

12

TMUs

176

12

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

57W

TDP

580W

250 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV570

GPU Name

Hawaii

RV570 XL

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

R500

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

230 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

3.0

Shader Model

6.3

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