AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop) vs ATI Radeon X1900 GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop) and ATI Radeon X1900 GT 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 - 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 61% higher core clock speed: 926 MHz vs 575 MHz
  • 22.4x more texture fill rate: 154.4 GTexel / s vs 6.9 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: 4 GB vs 256 MB
  • 5.5x more memory clock speed: 6600 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • 54.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8001 vs 146
  • Around 77% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 725 vs 409
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 August 2016 vs 1 May 2006
Core clock speed 926 MHz vs 575 MHz
Texture fill rate 154.4 GTexel / s vs 6.9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 6600 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 8001 vs 146
PassMark - G2D Mark 725 vs 409

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1900 GT

  • Around 60% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 120 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1900 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8001
146
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
725
409
Name AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop) ATI Radeon X1900 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 8001 146
PassMark - G2D Mark 725 409
Geekbench - OpenCL 33844
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 111.543
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1817.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 9.511
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 99.875
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 511.362
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2443
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1674
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2443
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1674
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3675

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop) ATI Radeon X1900 GT

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 R500
Code name Ellesmere R580
Design Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 4 August 2016 1 May 2006
Launch price (MSRP) $179
Place in performance rating 384 387
Price now $109.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 100.00

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1206 MHz
Compute units 32
Core clock speed 926 MHz 575 MHz
Floating-point performance 4.9 TFLOPs
GPU Power 85-110 Watt
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 2048
Stream Processors 2048
Texture fill rate 154.4 GTexel / s 6.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 384 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 241 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12 9.0c
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 2.0
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 211 GB/s 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 6600 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
CrossFire
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 2.0b
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore