ATI Radeon HD 5850 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5850

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2310MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

3680 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5850

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1032%

23.65 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5850

VS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

May 2022

Evergreen

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1860 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

80

-

1440

Shading Units

5120

72

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

128

-

RT Cores

80

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

335W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Navi 21

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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