AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 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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$ 259.99

$ 490.00 significantly less expensive

$ 749.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3023 points

14445 points

377% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

292 FPS

229 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

213 FPS

167 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

260 FPS

204 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS

124 FPS

99 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4965 points

17% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4221 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points

2747.99 points

549% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points

176249 points

246% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points

177326 points

199% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

1890 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz

21% slightly higher boost clock speed

2310 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

16 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144 GB/s

576 GB/s

300% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W

213% significantly lower TDP

335 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s

295.7 Gigapixels/s

228% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s

739.2 Gigatexels/s

310% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.77 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

309% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

5120

400% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

400% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 586

20th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

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 6500 XT vs Radeon RX 6950 XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6950 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6500 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 6500 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6950 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 107 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.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6950 XT is better than the Radeon RX 6500 XT.