Radeon HD 5950: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
This is a desktop graphics card based on a TeraScale 2 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4 GB/s are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 128.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 280 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 302 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon HD 5950: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 (2009−2015) | |
| GPU code name | Hemlock | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | no data |
Detailed specifications
Radeon HD 5950's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 5950's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1440 | of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Core clock speed | 725 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 2,154 million | of 185,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI350X) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 302 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 52.20 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 72 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 5950 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 280 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 5950: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 4 GB/s | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 128.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 5950. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.3a, 1x DisplayPort 1.1 | |
| HDMI | + |
API and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon HD 5950, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 5090 D) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
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