AMD Radeon RX 580 vs ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 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, 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.

AMD Radeon RX 580

ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 93% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 650 MHz
18553.8x more texture fill rate: 192.96 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
4x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 2000 MHz
58.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8878 vs 151
Around 65% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 771 vs 466

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 10 September 2006
Core clock speed	1257 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	192.96 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	8000 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	8878 vs 151
PassMark - G2D Mark	771 vs 466

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

8878

151

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

771

466

Name	AMD Radeon RX 580	ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	8878	151
PassMark - G2D Mark	771	466
Geekbench - OpenCL	42148
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	116.142
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1022.932
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	9.235
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	84.034
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	607.721
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11281
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11281
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3349
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4360

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 580	ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	R500
Code name	Polaris 20	R580+
Design	Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	18 April 2017	10 September 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$229
Place in performance rating	331	328
Price now	$169.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	76.21
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1340 MHz
Compute units	36
Core clock speed	1257 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	6.2 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	2304
Pixel fill rate	42.88 GP/s
Render output units	32
Stream Processors	2304
Texture fill rate	192.96 GTexel/s	10.4 GTexel / s
Texture Units	144
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	185 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)	500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	256 GB/s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR4
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready