AMD Radeon E8950 vs ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E8950 and ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP 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: 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon E8950

ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8950

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 84% higher core clock speed: 735 MHz vs 400 MHz
26.7x more texture fill rate: 128.0 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 256 MB
6.1x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 980 MHz

Launch date	29 September 2015 vs 1 October 2005
Core clock speed	735 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	128.0 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 980 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP

Around 94% lower typical power consumption: 49 Watt vs 95 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	49 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E8950
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP

Name	AMD Radeon E8950	ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	66.837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1369.722
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	6.633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	65.836
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	326.391
PassMark - G2D Mark		162
PassMark - G3D Mark		115

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon E8950	ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	R400
Code name	Amethyst	R430
Launch date	29 September 2015	1 October 2005
Place in performance rating	734	1028
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,096 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	2048
Texture fill rate	128.0 GTexel / s	4.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	49 Watt
Transistor count	5,000 million	160 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	9.0b
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB / s	31.36 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	980 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3