The above test had similar fill rates between the Radeon X1950 PRO and X1900 GT. In single texturing, the main reason behind the similar fill rate results is that both cards have only 12 pipelines. Moving on to multitexturing fill rates, the X1950 PRO has slightly better fill rates compared to the X1900 GT. This is because the video memory of the X1950 PRO is more advanced and has better bandwidth helping reduce bottlenecks. Its effectiveness in this situation, however, is rather limited.

Initially, the two Radeon solutions the X1950 PRO and X1900 GT have very similar vertex shader results. In advanced vertex shading the X1950 PRO pulls slightly ahead of the X1900 GT. Apparently the superior bandwidth of the X1950 PRO’s memory has an impact on these tests also.

Historically, the synthetic pixel shader tests usually have better results with NVIDIA video cards. In this test, the Radeon X1950 PRO again has a slight advantage over the Radeon X1900 GT.

The Radeon X1950 PRO performs very well in the Perlin Noise benchmark of 3D Mark 2006. The X1950 PRO has a considerable margin of advantage over the Radeon X1900 GT. In addition, it outdoes all NVIDIA competitors. The results raise the thought that ATI has been able to improve the shader management in the RV570 architecture due to the fact of how much it is able to outperform the X1900 GT which utilizes the R580 core.