Radeon R9 295X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 R9 295X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
1376 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages
Lower TDP (302W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+174%
5733
ATI Radeon HD 5950
2088
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Unknown
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
18
2816
Shading Units
1440
176
TMUs
72
64
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
52.20 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.088 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
500W
TDP
302W
900 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
Hemlock
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
Hemlock PRO
GCN 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
2.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
6.3
Shader Model
5.0
