AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 225W)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1905MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT +332%

9.754 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jul 2019

Northern Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1605 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1905 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

40

-

1408

Shading Units

2560

88

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.9 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

304.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

19.51 TFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.754 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

609.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

225W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Navi 10

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

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

6.5

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