Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 5500 OEM Advantages
Released 7 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1845MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Lower TDP (110W vs 185W)
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5500 OEM
+82%
5196
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
2842
Graphics Card
Oct 2019
Release Date
Jan 2012
Navi
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
1845 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
22
Compute Units
24
1408
Shading Units
1536
88
TMUs
96
32
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
59.04 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
162.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
88.80 GTexel/s
10.39 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.196 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.842 TFLOPS
324.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
710.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
110W
TDP
185W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 14
GPU Name
Tahiti
Navi 14 XT
(215-0932220)
(215-0932220)
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
(215-0821056)
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
28 nm
6.4 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
158 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.5
Shader Model
5.1
