
RSX-90nm and Radeon HD 5950 - video card comparison
RSX-90nm
Radeon HD 5950
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
RSX-90nm
Hemlock
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
-
-
Interface
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
-
725 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
300 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
1440
Power consumption (TDP)
-
302 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
52.20
Memory type
-
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
-
1 GB
Memory bus width
-
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
-
128.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
-
2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.3a, 1x DisplayPort 1.1
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
N/A
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
ES 1.1
4.4
Shader Model
-
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A