AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

AMD Radeon RX 5600 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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 7 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 69% (1560MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (125W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 OEM +92%

6.39 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

Radeon RX 5600 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2020

Sea Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1130 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

32

-

1792

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.84 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.78 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.390 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

399.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

125W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x 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

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 10

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

251 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

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5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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