ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (302W vs 500W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

20320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 +5153%

109.7 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

GeForce RTX 5090

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2025

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1.52TB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

-

SM Count

170

1440

Shading Units

21760

72

TMUs

680

32

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

680

-

RT Cores

170

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

88 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

483.8 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1714 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

109.7 TFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

109.7 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1.714 TFLOPS

Board Design

302W

TDP

500W

700 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GB202

Hemlock PRO

GPU Variant

GB202-400-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

4 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

Unknown

334 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

10.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.8

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