AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1560MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (125W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 OEM +183%

6.39 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

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Radeon RX 5600 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jan 2020

Northern Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1130 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

32

-

1408

Shading Units

2048

88

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.84 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.78 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.390 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

399.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

125W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Navi 10

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XE

TeraScale 3

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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