AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 XT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 89% (2250MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800 XT +1036%

20.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6800 XT +938%

19415

GeForce GTX 950

1869

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +1340%

72

GeForce GTX 950

5

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +570%

134

GeForce GTX 950

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +526%

188

GeForce GTX 950

30

Radeon RX 6800 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Aug 2015

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

1024 MHz

2250 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

72

Compute Units

-

4608

Shading Units

768

288

TMUs

48

128

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

72

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

288.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

648.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

41.47 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

1296 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GM206

Navi 21 XT (215-121000177)

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

90W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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