ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 67.20GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Jun 2014

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

67.20GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

-

Shading Units

2816

16

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.72 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

10.72 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

580W

300 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x DVI 1x VHDCI

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

R580+

GPU Name

Hawaii

R580+ XT (215BAABKA31FG)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

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

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

-

3.0

Shader Model

6.3

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