ATI Radeon HD 2950 XTX vs PRO W7500

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking118not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation100.00no data
Power efficiency38.75no data
ArchitectureRDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameNavi 33RV670
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date3 August 2023 (1 year ago)no data (2024 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$429 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores1792320
Core clock speed1500 MHz777 MHz
Boost clock speed1700 MHzno data
Number of transistors13,300 million666 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)70 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate190.412.43
Floating-point processing power12.19 TFLOPS0.4973 TFLOPS
ROPs6416
TMUs11216
Ray Tracing Cores28no data

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 4.0 x8PCIe 2.0 x16
Length216 mm241 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-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 typeGDDR6GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount8 GB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1344 MHz1126 MHz
Memory bandwidth172.0 GB/s72.06 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 Connectors4x DisplayPort 2.12x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model6.74.1
OpenGL4.63.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)
OpenCL2.2N/A
Vulkan1.3N/A

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 6 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 70 Watt 110 Watt

PRO W7500 has a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 816.7% more advanced lithography process, and 57.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon PRO W7500 and Radeon HD 2950 XTX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon PRO W7500 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon HD 2950 XTX is a desktop one.


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