ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +240%

7.119 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Nov 2018

Evergreen

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

18

Compute Units

36

1440

Shading Units

2304

72

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Hemlock PRO

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

302W

TDP

175W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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