Radeon RX 560 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 560 '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 560
+25%
2611
ATI Radeon HD 5950
2088
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
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
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
6.4
Shader Model
5.0
