Radeon RX 5500 XT and Radeon HD 8950M - video card comparison
Radeon RX 5500 XT
Radeon HD 8950M
Architecture
RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Navi 14 XTX
Saturn
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2019
May 2013
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
1845 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
1075 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
1,651 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,400 million
2,080 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
768
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
162.4
51.60
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
5500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224.0 GB/s
88 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.3
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131