AMD Radeon RX 5700 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5700 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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 RX 5700

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5700

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 69% higher boost clock speed: 1725 MHz vs 1018 MHz
2.8x lower typical power consumption: 180 Watt vs 500 Watt
Around 68% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 14385 vs 8574
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 879 vs 755

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 July 2019 vs 29 April 2014
Boost clock speed	1725 MHz vs 1018 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	180 Watt vs 500 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	14385 vs 8574
PassMark - G2D Mark	879 vs 755

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 295X2

8.8x more texture fill rate: 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 248.4 GT/s

Texture fill rate	2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 248.4 GT/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5700
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 295X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

14385

8574

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

879

755

Name	AMD Radeon RX 5700	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	14385	8574
PassMark - G2D Mark	879	755
Geekbench - OpenCL	66107
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	209.509
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	3686.851
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	21.941
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	250
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1036.448
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11536
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3366
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11536
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3366
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	8492	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 5700	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA	GCN 2.0
Code name	Navi 10	Vesuvius
Launch date	7 July 2019	29 April 2014
Launch price (MSRP)	$350	$1,499
Place in performance rating	188	187
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Price now		$1,099.99
Value for money (0-100)		11.14
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1725 MHz	1018 MHz
Compute units	36
Core clock speed	1465 MHz
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	15.9 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	7.95 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate	110.4 GP/s
Render output units	64
Stream Processors	2304	5632
Texture fill rate	248.4 GT/s	2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Texture Units	144
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	180 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	10.3 B	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,733 gflops
Manufacturing process technology		28 nm
Pipelines		2x 2816
Video outputs and ports
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 8-pin and 1x6 pin	2 x 8-pin
Bus support		PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		307 mm
API support
DirectX	12	12
Vulkan
OpenGL		4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s	640 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Memory clock speed		1250 MHz
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
TrueAudio
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)