GeForce RTX 3080 vs ATI Radeon X1950 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated26
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data46.29
Power efficiencyno data14.01
ArchitectureR500 (2005−2007)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameR580+GA102
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 October 2006 (18 years ago)1 September 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$699

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 coresno data8704
Core clock speed625 MHz1440 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1710 MHz
Number of transistors384 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)96 Watt320 Watt
Texture fill rate10.00465.1
Floating-point processing powerno data29.77 TFLOPS
ROPs1696
TMUs16272
Tensor Coresno data272
Ray Tracing Coresno data68

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data285 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 12-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 typeGDDR3GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount256 MB10 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1188 MHz
Memory bandwidth57.6 GB/s760.3 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model3.06.5
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-8.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 October 2006 1 September 2020
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 10 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 96 Watt 320 Watt

ATI X1950 XT has 233.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 3080, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 13 years, a 3900% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1025% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X1950 XT and GeForce RTX 3080. We've got no test results to judge.


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