AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 47% higher boost clock speed: 1499 MHz vs 1018 MHz
  • 110x more texture fill rate: 239.8 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • 3.8x lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 500 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) vs 1250 MHz
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 816 vs 759
  • Around 47% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12613 vs 8608
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 Aug 2020 vs 29 April 2014
Boost clock speed 1499 MHz vs 1018 MHz
Texture fill rate 239.8 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt vs 500 Watt
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) vs 1250 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 816 vs 759
PassMark - G3D Mark 12613 vs 8608

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 295X2

  • 2.2x more pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 2560
Pipelines 2x 2816 vs 2560

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 295X2

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
816
759
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
12613
8608
Name AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT AMD Radeon R9 295X2
PassMark - G2D Mark 816 759
PassMark - G3D Mark 12613 8608
Geekbench - OpenCL 59931
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 16433
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 16433
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 GCN 2.0
Code name Navi 10 Vesuvius
Launch date 4 Aug 2020 29 April 2014
Place in performance rating 180 182
Type Laptop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $1,499
Price now $1,099.99
Value for money (0-100) 11.14

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1499 MHz 1018 MHz
Compute units 40
Core clock speed 1243 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 479.7 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 15.35 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 7.675 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2560 2x 2816
Pixel fill rate 95.94 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 239.8 GTexel/s 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt 500 Watt
Transistor count 10300 million 6,200 million
Floating-point performance 2x 5,733 gflops
Stream Processors 5632

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None 2 x 8-pin
Width IGP
Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16
Length 307 mm

API support

DirectX 12.1 12
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 384 GB/s 640 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit 2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) 1250 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)