Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.34% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.
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Summary
ATI started Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition sales 10 September 2006. This is a R500 architecture desktop card based on 90 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 512 MB of GDDR4 memory clocked at 1 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 64 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics 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 the ranking | 1324 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | R500 (2005−2007) | |
| GPU code name | R580+ | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 10 September 2006 (19 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 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 384 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 90 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 10.40 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 16 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 64 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
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 and SDK support
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 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| 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.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Send your test results of Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition.
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition is GeForce 9400, which is slower by 3% and lower by 11 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
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