AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 99% (1845MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (110W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM +56%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Oct 2019

Sea Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

22

-

1792

Shading Units

1408

112

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

110W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x 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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 14

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XT (215-0932220)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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