Radeon RX 5500 XT and Radeon HD 6950 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Radeon HD 6950
Radeon RX 5500 XT
9430
Radeon HD 6950
2693
Radeon RX 5500 XT
Radeon HD 6950
Architecture
RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name
Navi 14 XTX
Cayman
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2019
December 2010
Bus support
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1845 MHz
800 MHz
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
-
2,252.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
6,400 million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
500 Watt
Texture fill rate
162.4
70.40
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224.0 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.5
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-