AMD Radeon RX 5500M vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500M and AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

AMD Radeon RX 5500M

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 81% higher core clock speed: 1448 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 62% higher texture fill rate: 144.76 GT/s vs 89.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 3 GB

Launch date	7 Oct 2019 vs 7 March 2013
Core clock speed	1448 MHz vs 800 MHz
Texture fill rate	144.76 GT/s vs 89.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 3 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Name	AMD Radeon RX 5500M	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	3166
PassMark - G2D Mark	336
Geekbench - OpenCL	38685
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11058
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3617
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3345
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11058
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3617
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3345
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4223
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		67.802
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1230.769
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		81.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		370.179

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 5500M	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA	GCN 1.0
Launch date	7 Oct 2019	7 March 2013
Place in performance rating	390	611
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Code name		Tahiti
Launch price (MSRP)		$449
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1645 MHz
Compute units	22
Core clock speed	1448 MHz	800 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	9.26 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.63 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate	52.6 GP/s
Stream Processors	1408
Texture fill rate	144.76 GT/s	89.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count	6400 million	4,313 million
Floating-point performance		2,867 gflops
Pipelines		1792
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		200 Watt
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 8-pin	2x 6-pin
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		279 mm
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s	240.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	384 Bit
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Memory clock speed		5000 MHz
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
API support
DirectX		12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL		4.5