Radeon HD 6950 and Radeon RX 5800 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6950

Radeon RX 5800

Architecture

TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Cayman

Navi 23

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2010

-

Bus support

PCIe 2.0 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

800 MHz

1735 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,252.8 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

2,640 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1408

3072

Power consumption (TDP)

500 Watt

275 Watt

Texture fill rate

70.40

333.1

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1250 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

448.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

+

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 11

12.0 (12_1)

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

-

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

-

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-