AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) vs ATI Radeon X1950 PRO

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop) and ATI Radeon X1950 PRO videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 90% higher core clock speed: 1090 MHz vs 575 MHz
9.7x more texture fill rate: 67.2 GTexel / s vs 6.9 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 80 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
5.1x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1380 MHz
36.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4101 vs 113
Around 82% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 578 vs 318

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 August 2016 vs 1 October 2006
Core clock speed	1090 MHz vs 575 MHz
Texture fill rate	67.2 GTexel / s vs 6.9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 1380 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4101 vs 113
PassMark - G2D Mark	578 vs 318

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1950 PRO

Around 6% lower typical power consumption: 66 Watt vs 70 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	66 Watt vs 70 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1950 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4101

113

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

578

318

Name	AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)	ATI Radeon X1950 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	4101	113
PassMark - G2D Mark	578	318
Geekbench - OpenCL	17592
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	55
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	970.421
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.656
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	76.881
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	237.944
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	115.4
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1730

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 460 (Desktop)	ATI Radeon X1950 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	R500
Code name	Baffin	RV570
Design	Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	8 August 2016	1 October 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$86
Place in performance rating	540	539
Price now	$179.50
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	33.86
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Compute units	14
Core clock speed	1090 MHz	575 MHz
Floating-point performance	2.2 TFLOPs
GPU Power	35-48 Watt
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	896
Stream Processors	896
Texture fill rate	67.2 GTexel / s	6.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 Watt	66 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	330 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	170 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	112 GB/s	44.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	1380 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 2.0
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore