Radeon RX 5600 XT and Radeon HD 7950 Boost - video card comparison

Radeon RX 5600 XT

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

Architecture

RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Navi 10

Tahiti

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2020

June 2012

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1750 MHz

925 MHz

Core clock speed

1235 MHz

850 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,315 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

10,300 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

1792

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

224.6

103.6

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

5000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

288.0 GB/s

240.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

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

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131