AMD Radeon RX 590 vs ATI Radeon HD 2950 PRO

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590 ATI Radeon HD 2950 PRO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2950 PRO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Boost Clock1545MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2950 PRO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +1753%

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2950 PRO

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

Radeon HD 2950 PRO

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Unknown

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

-

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

4

2304

Shading Units

320

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

RV670

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO ES (215-0708001)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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