ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Boost Clock1471MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

2144 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (210W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 +404%

10.54 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Aug 2017

Evergreen

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1156 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

56

-

1440

Shading Units

3584

72

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

302W

TDP

210W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Vega 10

Hemlock PRO

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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