NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
More VRAM (896GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
240 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (57W vs 289W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 200
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
999 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
896MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
448bit
Memory Bus
256bit
111.9GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
30
SM Count
-
240
Shading Units
-
80
TMUs
12
28
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
224 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
16.13 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.000 GPixel/s
46.08 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
596.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
74.52 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
289W
TDP
57W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GT200B
GPU Name
RV570
G200-401-B3
GPU Variant
RV570 XL
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
0.33 billion
470 mm²
Die Size
230 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
