ATI Radeon X1950 GT vs AMD Radeon RX 580

VS

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

AMD Radeon RX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1950 GT

VS

Radeon RX 580

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Apr 2017

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

600 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

-

Shading Units

2304

12

TMUs

144

12

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

57W

TDP

185W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV570

GPU Name

Polaris 20

RV570 XL

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

R500

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

230 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

3.0

Shader Model

6.4

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