AMD Radeon HD 6290 vs ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Cedar R580+
GPU variant Cedar LE R580+ XT (215BAABKA31FG)
Architecture TeraScale 2 R500
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 90 nm
Number of transistors 292 million 384 million
Die size 59 mm² 352 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Dec 4th, 2011 Jan 19th, 2007
Generation Northern Islands Radeon R500 PCIe
Predecessor Evergreen Radeon R400 PCIe
Successor Southern Islands Radeon R600
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Launch price 788 USD
Reviews 144 in our database

Clocks

GPU clock 650 MHz 670 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective 1050 MHz 2.1 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR4
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 12.80 GB/s 67.20 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 80
TMUs 8 16
ROPs 4 16
Compute units 2
Cache L1 8 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 128 KB
Pixel shaders 48
Vertex shaders 8

Performance

Pixel rate 2.600 GPixel/s 10.72 GPixel/s
Texture rate 5.200 GTexel/s 10.72 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 104.0 GFLOPS
Vertex rate 1.340 GVertices/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Dual-slot
Length 168 mm 6.6 inches 230 mm 9.1 inches
TDP 19 W 125 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 300 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1x DVI1x VHDCI
Power connectors None 1x 6-pin
Board number A915

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL 4.4 2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan
Shader model 5.0 3.0

Other Features

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