ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs ATI HD 5750

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking771not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.42no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameJuniperHemlock
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date13 October 2009 (15 years ago)no data (2024 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores7201440
Core clock speed700 MHz725 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million2,154 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)86 Watt302 Watt
Texture fill rate25.2052.20
Floating-point processing power1.008 TFLOPSno data
ROPs1632
TMUs3672

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length178 mm280 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1150 MHz4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth73.6 GB/s128.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.3a, 1x DisplayPort 1.1
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API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.0
OpenGL4.44.4
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 86 Watt 302 Watt

ATI HD 5750 has 251.2% lower power consumption.

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