Home GPU Comparison AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 504.2GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (2475MHz vs 2310MHz)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT

23.65 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 +23%

29.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6950 XT +19%

21420

GeForce RTX 4070

17861

Blender

Radeon RX 6950 XT

2889

GeForce RTX 4070 +108%

6026

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +4%

GeForce RTX 4070

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

156

GeForce RTX 4070 +2%

160

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

214

GeForce RTX 4070 +19%

256

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +20%

GeForce RTX 4070

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

GeForce RTX 4070 +22%

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

115

GeForce RTX 4070 +13%

130

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +24%

122

GeForce RTX 4070

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +16%

200

GeForce RTX 4070

172

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

200

GeForce RTX 4070

200

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

130

GeForce RTX 4070 +10%

144

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +5%

152

GeForce RTX 4070

144

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

189

GeForce RTX 4070

190

Radeon RX 6950 XT

GeForce RTX 4070

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Apr 2023

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

1920 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

SM Count

Compute Units

5120

Shading Units

5888

320

TMUs

184

128

ROPs

Tensor Cores

184

RT Cores

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

36 MB

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

AD104

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

AD104-250-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

5 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

295 mm²

Board Design

335W

TDP

200W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

8.9

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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