AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (2394MHz vs 2310MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 576.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (300W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT

23.65 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT +117%

51.48 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6950 XT

21420

Radeon RX 7900 XT +24%

26668

Blender

Radeon RX 6950 XT

2889

Radeon RX 7900 XT +49%

4310

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

86

Radeon RX 7900 XT +18%

102

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

156

Radeon RX 7900 XT +31%

205

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

214

Radeon RX 7900 XT +39%

299

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +4%

65

Radeon RX 7900 XT

62

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

76

Radeon RX 7900 XT +19%

91

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

115

Radeon RX 7900 XT +29%

149

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

130

Radeon RX 7900 XT +30%

170

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

152

Radeon RX 7900 XT +11%

170

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

189

Radeon RX 7900 XT

190

Radeon RX 6950 XT

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Radeon RX 7900 XT

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Nov 2022

Navi II

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

1387 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

2394 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

800.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

80

Compute Units

84

5120

Shading Units

5376

320

TMUs

336

128

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

84

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

4 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

459.6 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

804.4 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

103.0 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

51.48 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.609 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Navi 31

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XT (215-145000156)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

5 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

335W

TDP

300W

700 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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