AMD Radeon RX 560X vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560X

ATI Radeon HD 5950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X 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 560X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 302W)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560X +25%

2.611 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Unknown

Polaris

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

-

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

18

-

1024

Shading Units

1440

64

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

302W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Hemlock

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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