Radeon RX 580 and Radeon HD 5950 - video card comparison
Radeon RX 580
Radeon HD 5950
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Polaris 20
Hemlock
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1340 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1257 MHz
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
6,175 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
1440
Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
302 Watt
Texture fill rate
193.0
52.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
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
1.2.131
N/A