ATI Radeon X1950 GT vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

VS

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

AMD Radeon Sky 500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT and 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 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 150W)

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1950 GT

VS

Radeon Sky 500

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Mar 2013

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

600 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

Shading Units

1280

12

TMUs

80

12

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

57W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV570

GPU Name

Pitcairn

RV570 XL

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

R500

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

230 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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