AMD FirePro S9050 vs ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro S9050 and ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro S9050

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 38% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 650 MHz
  • 9.7x more texture fill rate: 100.8 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 24x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 512 MB
  • 2.8x more memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 2000 MHz
  • 32.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4901 vs 151
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 August 2014 vs 10 September 2006
Core clock speed 900 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate 100.8 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 5500 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4901 vs 151

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

  • Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 466 vs 369
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 466 vs 369

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro S9050
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4901
151
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
369
466
Name AMD FirePro S9050 ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark 4901 151
PassMark - G2D Mark 369 466
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 68.324
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1463.376
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 6.491
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 91.133
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 344.551
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7062
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 6260
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 13032
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7062
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 6260
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 13032

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD FirePro S9050 ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 R500
Code name Tahiti R580+
Launch date 7 August 2014 10 September 2006
Place in performance rating 361 328
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 900 MHz 650 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,226 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 1792
Texture fill rate 100.8 GTexel / s 10.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt
Transistor count 4,313 million 384 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Form factor Full Height / Full Length
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 254 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 264 GB / s 64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5500 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR4