AMD Radeon RX 5950 XT: specs and benchmarks

Summary

This is a desktop graphics card based on a RDNA 2.0 architecture and made with 7 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 24 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 672.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Two 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 350 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about Radeon RX 5950 XT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)
GPU code name	Navi 21
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	no data

Technical specs

Radeon RX 5950 XT's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 5950 XT's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	5120	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Boost clock speed	1635 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	21,000 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	350 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	523.2	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 5950 XT 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 4.0 x16
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 5950 XT: 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	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	384 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	672.0 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 5950 XT. 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	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI	+

API support

APIs supported by Radeon RX 5950 XT, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL	4.6

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon RX 5950 XT. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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