ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs AMD Radeon R7 250XE

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

AMD Radeon R7 250XE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250XE 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 72.00GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250XE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 +89%

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250XE

1.101 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

Radeon R7 250XE

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Aug 2014

Evergreen

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

10

-

1440

Shading Units

640

72

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.76 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.40 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1101 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

68.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

302W

TDP

80W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Hemlock PRO

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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