ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL vs AMD Radeon HD 6290

VS

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

AMD Radeon HD 6290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.16GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6290 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

80 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (19W vs 130W)

Score

Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

VS

Radeon HD 6290

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Dec 2011

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

690 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

44.16GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

-

Shading Units

80

12

TMUs

8

12

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.900 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

6.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

130W

TDP

19W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV570

GPU Name

Cedar

RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG)

GPU Variant

Cedar LE

R500

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

230 mm²

Die Size

59 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL vs NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

2

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

3

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL vs Intel Arc A310

4

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL vs AMD FirePro W4100

5

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL vs AMD Radeon RX 560D

6

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL vs ATI Radeon HD 3690

7

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

8

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

9

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL vs AMD Radeon Pro W6800X

10

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL vs AMD Radeon RX 7950 XTX

Related News

1

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

2

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

3

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

4

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

5

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

6

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

7

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

8

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

9

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

10

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption