AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

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AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary 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 50th Anniversary 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 114% (1980MHz 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 50th Anniversary +205%

10.14 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

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

1680 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1980 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

126.7 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

316.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

20.28 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.14 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

633.6 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 XTX

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

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