NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 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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$ 639.00

$ 110.99 slightly less expensive

$ 749.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8845 points

14445 points

63% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

210 FPS

292 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

213 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

151 FPS

260 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

124 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 4K

72 FPS

89 FPS

17 FPS slightly higher God of War FPS

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Ultra settings at 4K

44 FPS

97 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

14857 points

251% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4221 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3754.04 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

2747.99 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

138062 points

176249 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

131952 points

177326 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1575 MHz

1890 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1770 MHz

2310 MHz

30% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

608.3 GB/s

5% slightly higher memory bandwidth

576 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

290 W

15% slightly lower TDP

335 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

169.9 Gigapixels/s

295.7 Gigapixels/s

74% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

339.8 Gigatexels/s

739.2 Gigatexels/s

117% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

21.75 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

8% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

6144

20% slightly more shading units

5120

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

320

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

45th of 586

20th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon RX 6950 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6950 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6950 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6950 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6950 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 290 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6950 XT at 335 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6950 XT is faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti.