ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 44.16GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Nov 2018

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

690 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

44.16GB/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

6.900 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

6.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

175W

300 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 30

RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG)

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

R500

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

12 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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