GeForce RTX 2070 Super vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated70
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data42.06
Power efficiencyno data15.22
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameHemlockTU104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)9 July 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$499

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 cores14402560
Core clock speed725 MHz1605 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1770 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)302 Watt215 Watt
Texture fill rate52.20283.2
Floating-point processing powerno data9.062 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs72160
Tensor Coresno data320
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

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 3.0 x16
Length280 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed4 GB/s1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/s448.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 1.3a, 1x DisplayPort 1.11x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI++
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 302 Watt 215 Watt

RTX 2070 Super has a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 233.3% more advanced lithography process, and 40.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5950 and GeForce RTX 2070 Super. We've got no test results to judge.


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