ATI Radeon X1950 XT vs HD 8470D

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1115	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.04	no data
Architecture	TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)	R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name	Scrapper	R580+
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	29 July 2013 (11 years ago)	17 October 2006 (18 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	192	no data
Core clock speed	800 MHz	625 MHz
Boost clock speed	850 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	1,303 million	384 million
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	96 Watt
Texture fill rate	10.20	10.00
Floating-point processing power	0.3264 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	4	16
TMUs	12	16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	IGP	PCIe 1.0 x16
Width	IGP	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

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 type	System Shared	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	256 MB
Memory bus width	System Shared	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	900 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	57.6 GB/s
Shared memory	+	-

Connectivity and outputs

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 Connectors

No outputs

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	5.0	3.0
OpenGL	4.4	2.0
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	29 July 2013	17 October 2006
Chip lithography	32 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	96 Watt

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