ATI Radeon X1950 XTX vs AMD FirePro M8900

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameBlackcomb XTR580+
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date12 April 2011 (12 years old)17 October 2006 (17 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$449
Current price$267 $47 (0.1x MSRP)

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores960no data
Core clock speed680 MHz650 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 million384 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt125 Watt
Texture fill rate32.6410.40
Floating-point performance1,305.6 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on FirePro M8900 and Radeon X1950 XTX compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportn/ano data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 1.0 x16
Lengthno data230 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Form factorMXM-Bno data
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount2 GB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth115 GB/s64 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model5.03.0
OpenGL4.42.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 12 April 2011 17 October 2006
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 125 Watt

We couldn't decide between FirePro M8900 and Radeon X1950 XTX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro M8900 is a mobile workstation card while Radeon X1950 XTX is a desktop one.


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