Radeon X1950 XT and GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps - video card comparison
Radeon X1950 XT
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
Architecture
R500 (2005−2007)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
R580+
GP104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2006
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1733 MHz
Core clock speed
625 MHz
1607 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
8,873 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
384 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
180 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.00
277.3
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
11008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
352.3 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
2.0
4.6
Shader Model
3.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131