AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT and AMD Radeon HD 7950 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

AMD Radeon HD 7950

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 41% higher boost clock speed: 1757 MHz vs 1250 MHz
1882.8x more texture fill rate: 168.7 GTexel/s vs 89.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
2.4x lower typical power consumption: 125 Watt vs 300 Watt
2.7x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 3 GB
Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 1250 MHz

Launch date	4 Aug 2020 vs 31 January 2012
Boost clock speed	1757 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Texture fill rate	168.7 GTexel/s vs 89.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt vs 300 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 3 GB
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 1250 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950

Around 17% higher pipelines: 1792 vs 1536
Around 97% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 82144 vs 41707

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	1792 vs 1536
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	82144 vs 41707

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7950

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

41707

82144

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	AMD Radeon HD 7950
Geekbench - OpenCL	41707	82144
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		63.74
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1177.395
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		5.685
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		69.23
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		343.81
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		7988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		7988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1914

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	AMD Radeon HD 7950
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Navi 14	Tahiti
Launch date	4 Aug 2020	31 January 2012
Place in performance rating	521	518
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$449
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1757 MHz	1250 MHz
Compute units	24	28
Core clock speed	1187 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	337.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.80 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.398 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1536	1792
Pixel fill rate	56.22 GPixel/s
Render output units	32
Texture fill rate	168.7 GTexel/s	89.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	4,313 million
Floating-point performance		2,867 gflops
Stream Processors		1792
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays		6
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 6-pin
Width	IGP
Bus support		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		267 mm
API support
DirectX	12.1	11
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	240 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)	1250 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
PowerTune
ZeroCore