AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 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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$ 488.33

$ 261.66 significantly less expensive

$ 749.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5396 points

14445 points

167% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

292 FPS

181 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

213 FPS

131 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

260 FPS

163 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

124 FPS

78 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9586 points

127% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4221 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

979.30 points

2747.99 points

180% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

94209 points

224476 points

138% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

176249 points

125% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

177326 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

1890 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

2310 MHz

21% 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

448 GB/s

576 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

48% significantly lower TDP

335 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

295.7 Gigapixels/s

142% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

739.2 Gigatexels/s

142% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

142% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

5120

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

320

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

93rd of 586

20th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

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

Radeon RX 5700 XT vs Radeon RX 6950 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6950 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5700 XT in gaming.

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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6950 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5700 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 225 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 Radeon RX 5700 XT.