NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Price

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$ 633.11

$ 116.88 slightly less expensive

$ 749.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

10078 points

14445 points

43% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

217 FPS

292 FPS

75 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

153 FPS

213 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

153 FPS

260 FPS

107 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

115 FPS

124 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

14639 points

246% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4221 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3056.90 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

2747.99 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

145114 points

176249 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

134471 points

177326 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1350 MHz

1890 MHz

40% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

2310 MHz

49% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

16 GiB

45% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

352 Bit

37% slightly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

616 GB/s

6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

576 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

34% slightly lower TDP

335 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

136 Gigapixels/s

295.7 Gigapixels/s

117% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

420.2 Gigatexels/s

739.2 Gigatexels/s

75% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.45 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

75% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4352

5120

17% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

320

17% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

45% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

37th of 586

20th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 September

2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs Radeon RX 6950 XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6950 XT beats the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6950 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 6950 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6950 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 11 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6950 XT at 335 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6950 XT over the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.