ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 44.16GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Jan 2013

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

690 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

44.16GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

Shading Units

2048

12

TMUs

128

12

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.900 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

6.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV570

GPU Name

Tahiti

RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

R500

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

230 mm²

Die Size

352 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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