ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP 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)

800 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (60W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 +52%

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Apr 2018

Evergreen

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1019 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

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

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

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

302W

TDP

60W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Baffin

Hemlock PRO

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

3 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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