ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 67.20GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Nov 2013

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

67.20GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

40

-

Shading Units

2560

16

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.72 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

10.72 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R580+

GPU Name

Hawaii

R580+ XT (215BAABKA31FG)

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

R500

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

90 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.384 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

125W

TDP

275W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VHDCI

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

3.0

Shader Model

6.3

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