AMD Radeon RX 570X vs ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 570X 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon RX 570X

ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 570X

Videocard is newer: launch date 101 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 80% higher core clock speed: 1168 MHz vs 650 MHz
15310.6x more texture fill rate: 159.23 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
3.5x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Around 61% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 750 vs 466
12.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1923 vs 151

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 April 2108 vs 10 September 2006
Core clock speed	1168 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	159.23 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	7000 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	750 vs 466
PassMark - G3D Mark	1923 vs 151

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 570X
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

750

466

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1923

151

Name	AMD Radeon RX 570X	ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	8697
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	8697
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3101
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3101
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3345
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3345
PassMark - G2D Mark	750	466
PassMark - G3D Mark	1923	151
Geekbench - OpenCL	38939

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 570X	ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	R500
Code name	Polaris 20	R580+
Design	Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	3 April 2108	10 September 2006
Place in performance rating	337	328
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1244 MHz
Compute units	32
Core clock speed	1168 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	5.1 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	2048
Pixel fill rate	39.81 GP/s
Render output units	32
Stream Processors	2048
Texture fill rate	159.23 GTexel/s	10.4 GTexel / s
Texture Units	128
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt
Transistor count	5,700 million	384 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR4
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support