Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition vs 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
Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 375W)
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
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
