AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2310MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

4992 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 's Advantages

Lower TDP (141W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +4931%

23.65 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GTX

0.47 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

GeForce 9800 GTX

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Jan 2009

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

-

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

80

Compute Units

-

5120

Shading Units

128

320

TMUs

64

128

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.81 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.23 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

470.0 GFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

G92B

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

G92-420-B1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

55 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

335W

TDP

141W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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