AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2310MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

3520 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages

Lower TDP (228W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +769%

23.65 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Mar 2010

Navi II

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

-

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

20

-

5120

Shading Units

1600

320

TMUs

80

128

ROPs

32

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

335W

TDP

228W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Cypress

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

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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