RTX A2000 Mobile vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated209
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data18.88
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameHemlockGA106
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 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 cores14402560
Core clock speed725 MHz893 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1358 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)302 Watt95 Watt
Texture fill rate52.20108.6
Floating-point processing powerno data6.953 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs7280
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length280 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data

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 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed4 GB/s1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/s176.0 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 1.1No outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.6
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 302 Watt 95 Watt

RTX A2000 Mobile has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 400% more advanced lithography process, and 217.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5950 and RTX A2000 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5950 is a desktop card while RTX A2000 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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