Radeon RX 5950 vs RX 5700

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking119not rated
Place by popularity75not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation45.74no data
Power efficiency15.01no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 10Navi 21
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date7 July 2019 (5 years ago)no data (2024 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$349 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 cores23044864
Core clock speed1465 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1725 MHz1535 MHz
Number of transistors10,300 million21,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)180 Watt350 Watt
Texture fill rate248.4466.6
Floating-point processing power7.949 TFLOPS14.93 TFLOPS
ROPs6496
TMUs144304

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 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length268 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin2x 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB24 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s672.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 24 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 180 Watt 350 Watt

RX 5700 has 94.4% lower power consumption.

RX 5950, on the other hand, has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5700 and Radeon RX 5950. We've got no test results to judge.


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