ATI Radeon X1950 XT vs HD 6870

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking597not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.00no data
Power efficiency2.61no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameBartsR580+
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designreferenceno data
Release date21 October 2010 (14 years ago)17 October 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$239 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1120no data
Core clock speedno data625 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,700 million384 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)151 Watt96 Watt
Texture fill rate50.4010.00
Floating-point processing power2.016 TFLOPSno data
ROPs3216
TMUs5616

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCIe 2.0 x16no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length220 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB256 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1050 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth134.4 GB/s57.6 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity+-
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXDirectX® 119.0c (9_3)
Shader Model5.03.0
OpenGL4.42.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 October 2010 17 October 2006
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 151 Watt 96 Watt

HD 6870 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 125% more advanced lithography process.

ATI X1950 XT, on the other hand, has 57.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon X1950 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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