Radeon RX 560 and Radeon HD 8950 OEM - video card comparison

Radeon RX 560

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Polaris 21

Tahiti

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

January 2013

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1275 MHz

925 MHz

Core clock speed

1175 MHz

850 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,611 gflops

3,315 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

3,000 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

1792

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

81.60

103.6

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

7000 MHz

5000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

112.0 GB/s

240.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

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

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131