Radeon HD 6480G vs ATI X1950 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1178
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data1.36
ArchitectureR500 (2005−2007)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameR580+Sumo
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 October 2006 (18 years ago)14 June 2011 (13 years 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 data240
Core clock speed625 MHz444 MHz
Number of transistors384 million1,178 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)96 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate10.005.328
Floating-point processing powerno data0.2131 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs1612

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 x16IGP
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed900 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth57.6 GB/sno data
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 S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model3.05.0
OpenGL2.04.4
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 October 2006 14 June 2011
Chip lithography 90 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 96 Watt 35 Watt

HD 6480G has an age advantage of 4 years, a 181.3% more advanced lithography process, and 174.3% lower power consumption.

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