ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1376 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +169%

5.632 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jun 2014

Evergreen

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

18

Compute Units

44

1440

Shading Units

2816

72

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Hawaii

Hemlock PRO

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

302W

TDP

580W

700 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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