ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs AMD Radeon 540

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950 AMD Radeon 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1056 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 +129%

2.088 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Apr 2017

Evergreen

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

32bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

18

Compute Units

6

1440

Shading Units

384

72

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Lexa

Hemlock PRO

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

302W

TDP

50W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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