Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition sales 10 September 2006. This is a desktop graphics card based on a R500 architecture and made with 90 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 512 MB of GDDR4 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 64 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. 1x 6-pin power connector is required.

Primary Details

Some basic facts about Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name	R580+
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	10 September 2006 (17 years ago)

Detailed Specifications

Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	650 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	384 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Texture fill rate	10.40	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Form Factor & Compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin

VRAM Capacity and Type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Connectivity and Outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VHDCI

API Compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	3.0
OpenGL	2.0	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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