AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 225W)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 106% (1905MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT +194%

9.754 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jul 2019

Sea Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1605 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1905 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

40

-

1792

Shading Units

2560

112

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.9 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

304.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

19.51 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.754 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

609.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

225W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 10

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

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

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition

2

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA A2

3

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs Intel Arc A580

4

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD FirePro W5100

5

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti OEM

6

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

7

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 570X

8

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

9

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

10

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6930

Related News

1

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

2

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

3

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

4

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

5

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

6

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

7

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

8

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

9

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

10

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers