ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

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ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 67.20GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

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Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Unknown

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

67.20GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.72 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

10.72 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x VHDCI

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

R580+

GPU Name

Tahiti

R580+ XT (215BAABKA31FG)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

R500

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

90 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.384 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

352 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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