AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary 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 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (2310MHz vs 1980MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary 's Advantages

Lower TDP (225W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +133%

23.65 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

10.14 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

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Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Jul 2019

Navi II

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

1680 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

1980 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

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80

Compute Units

40

5120

Shading Units

2560

320

TMUs

160

128

ROPs

64

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Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

126.7 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

316.8 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.28 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.14 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

633.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Navi 10

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XTX

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

7 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Board Design

335W

TDP

225W

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 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5

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