NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 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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$ 1549.99

$ 749.99

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

14445 points

3% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

41 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

292 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

213 FPS

44 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

260 FPS

20 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

124 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

372% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4221 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

111% significantly higher Blender score

2747.99 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

176249 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

177326 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

1890 MHz

35% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

2310 MHz

36% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB

49% significantly more memory

16 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

62% significantly higher memory bandwidth

576 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

335 W

4% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

295.7 Gigapixels/s

55% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

739.2 Gigatexels/s

32% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

50% significantly better floating point performance

23.65 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

104% significantly more shading units

5120

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

2% slightly more texture mapping units

320

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

128

14% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586

20th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

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 3090 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6950 XT in gaming.

In our comparison, 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 slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 16 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6950 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 335 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3090 over the Radeon RX 6950 XT.