AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT ATI Radeon HD 5950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT 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 RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (130W vs 302W)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT +148%

5.196 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Unknown

Navi

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

18

1408

Shading Units

1440

88

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Hemlock

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

302W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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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