AMD Radeon Pro 580 vs ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 580 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 Radeon Pro 580

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 69% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 650 MHz
  • 18.6x more texture fill rate: 193.0 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 90 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 512 MB
  • 3.4x more memory clock speed: 6780 MHz vs 2000 MHz
  • 51.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7753 vs 151
  • 2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 943 vs 466
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 June 2017 vs 10 September 2006
Core clock speed 1100 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate 193.0 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 6780 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 7753 vs 151
PassMark - G2D Mark 943 vs 466

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 580
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
7753
151
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
943
466
Name AMD Radeon Pro 580 ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark 7753 151
PassMark - G2D Mark 943 466
Geekbench - OpenCL 40270
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 109.521
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1206.829
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 9.88
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 117.944
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 511.984
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10113
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2900
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10113
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2900
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro 580 ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 R500
Code name Polaris 20 R580+
Launch date 5 June 2017 10 September 2006
Place in performance rating 330 331
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1200 MHz
Core clock speed 1100 MHz 650 MHz
Floating-point performance 6,175 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 2304
Texture fill rate 193.0 GTexel / s 10.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 384 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 241 mm
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 256.0 GB / s 64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 6780 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR4