AMD Radeon R7 260X vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (115W vs 302W)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950 +5%

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

18

896

Shading Units

1440

56

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Hemlock

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

302W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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