Radeon X1950 XTX: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

ATI started Radeon X1950 XTX sales 17 October 2006 at a recommended price of $449 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a R500 architecture and made with 90 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 512 MB of GDDR4 memory clocked at 1 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 64 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 230 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 125 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon X1950 XTX: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureR500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameR580+
Market segmentDesktop
Release date17 October 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$449 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

Radeon X1950 XTX's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon X1950 XTX's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed650 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors384 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology90 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)125 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate10.40of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs16of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs16of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon X1950 XTX and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16
Length230 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon X1950 XTX: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR4
Maximum RAM amount512 MBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1000 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth64 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon X1950 XTX. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon X1950 XTX, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model3.0
OpenGL2.0of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

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