AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

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AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1757MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (125W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 5500 XT +139%

5.398 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Aug 2020

Release Date

Dec 2010

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1187 MHz

Base Clock

-

1757 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

22

1536

Shading Units

1408

96

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

168.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

10.80 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.398 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

337.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Cayman

Navi 14 PRO XL

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

125W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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