Radeon X1950 XT and Radeon HD 8490 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon X1950 XT
Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Architecture
R500 (2005−2007)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
R580+
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2006
July 2013
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
625 MHz
875 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
280.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
384 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
160
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.00
7.000
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
2.0
4.4
Shader Model
3.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A