AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP vs ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2950 XTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 110W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 896SP +323%

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2950 XTX

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

VS

Radeon HD 2950 XTX

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Unknown

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

-

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

4

-

896

Shading Units

320

56

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

45W

TDP

110W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

RV670

Polaris 21 XL

GPU Variant

RV670 XTX (215-0708004)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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