ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV570 G92B
GPU variant RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG) G92-426-B1
Architecture R500 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 80 nm 55 nm
Number of transistors 330 million 754 million
Die size 230 mm² 260 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jan 10th, 2007 Mar 4th, 2009
Generation Radeon R500 PCIe GeForce 200
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 349 USD 199 USD
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 144 in our database 58 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 PCIe GeForce 9
Successor Radeon R600 GeForce 400

Clocks

GPU clock 575 MHz 675 MHz
Memory clock 690 MHz 1380 Mbps effective 1008 MHz 2 Gbps effective
Shader clock 1620 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 1024 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 44.16 GB/s 64.51 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 36
Vertex shaders 8
TMUs 12 64
ROPs 12 16
Shading units 128
SM count 16
Cache L2 64 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 6.900 GPixel/s 10.80 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 1.150 GVertices/s
Texture rate 6.900 GTexel/s 43.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 414.7 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Dual-slot
Length 300 mm 11.8 inches 229 mm 9 inches
TDP 130 W 150 W
Suggested PSU 300 W 450 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 2x DVI
Power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Board number P365

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial) 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0 4.0
CUDA 1.1

Other Features

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