AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 7500 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 216.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 149% (2300MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (100W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7500 XT +184%

9.421 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

Radeon RX 7500 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Sea Islands

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1452 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

2300 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

96bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

216.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

16

-

1792

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

L3 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

73.60 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

147.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

18.84 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.421 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

294.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

100W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 33

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Navi 33

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

13.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

204 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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