GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q vs ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1258not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureR500 (2005−2007)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameR580+AD106
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date10 September 2006 (18 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)

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 coresno data4608
Core clock speed650 MHz735 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1230 MHz
Number of transistors384 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology90 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data35 Watt
Texture fill rate10.40177.1
Floating-point processing powerno data11.34 TFLOPS
ROPs1648
TMUs16144
Tensor Coresno data144
Ray Tracing Coresno data36

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR4GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s224.0 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VHDCIPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model3.06.7
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 September 2006 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 4 nm

RTX 4070 Max-Q has an age advantage of 16 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition and GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
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