Radeon R7 250 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R7 250 's Advantages
Lower TDP (55W vs 302W)
ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
928 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 250
717
ATI Radeon HD 5950
+191%
2088
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Unknown
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
8
Compute Units
18
512
Shading Units
1440
32
TMUs
72
16
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
11.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
22.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
52.20 GTexel/s
716.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.088 TFLOPS
44.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
55W
TDP
302W
250 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cape Verde
GPU Name
Hemlock
Cape Verde PRO
GPU Variant
Hemlock PRO
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.5 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
123 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
