AMD Radeon RX 570 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

AMD Radeon RX 570

ATI Radeon HD 5950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 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 570 's Advantages

Boost Clock1244MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

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

608 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 570 +144%

5.095 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Unknown

Polaris

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

-

1244 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

18

-

2048

Shading Units

1440

128

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.81 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

159.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

5.095 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.095 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

318.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

302W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Hemlock

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

232 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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