Radeon RX 570 and Radeon HD 5950 - video card comparison
Radeon RX 570
Radeon HD 5950
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Polaris 20 Ellesmere
Hemlock
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1244 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1168 MHz
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,095 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
1440
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
302 Watt
Texture fill rate
159.2
52.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
224.0 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.3a, 1x DisplayPort 1.1
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
FreeSync
+
-