ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs AMD Radeon R7 260

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

AMD Radeon R7 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 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 96.00GB/s)

672 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (95W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 +35%

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

Radeon R7 260

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Dec 2013

Evergreen

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

12

-

1440

Shading Units

768

72

TMUs

48

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

16.00 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

302W

TDP

95W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Bonaire

Hemlock PRO

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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