Radeon HD 8570D vs ATI X1950 XTX

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	1074
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	1.20
Architecture	R500 (2005−2007)	TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name	R580+	Devastator Lite
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	17 October 2006 (18 years ago)	10 July 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$449	no data

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 cores	no data	256
Core clock speed	650 MHz	800 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	868 MHz
Number of transistors	384 million	1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	125 Watt	65 Watt
Texture fill rate	10.40	13.89
Floating-point processing power	no data	0.4444 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	8
TMUs	16	16

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).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	IGP
Length	230 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	no 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 type	GDDR4	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	System Shared
Memory bus width	256 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	no 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 Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	9.0c (9_3)	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	3.0	5.0
OpenGL	2.0	4.4
OpenCL	N/A	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	17 October 2006	10 July 2013
Chip lithography	90 nm	32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	125 Watt	65 Watt

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