AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

AMD Radeon HD 6950

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

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

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

Lower TDP (130W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT +130%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Dec 2010

Navi

Generation

Northern Islands

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

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

22

-

1408

Shading Units

1408

88

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Cayman

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

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

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

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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