AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Price

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$ 749.99

$ 541.95

$ 208.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14445 points

18% slightly better overall score

12174 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

292 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

289 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

213 FPS

71 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

141 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

260 FPS

54 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

206 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

124 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

114 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4221 points

9% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2747.99 points

5402.96 points

96% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

176249 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

168368 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

177326 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

158623 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1890 MHz

2190 MHz

15% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2310 MHz

2430 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB

33% slightly more memory

12 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

60% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

576 GB/s

60% significantly higher memory bandwidth

360 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

335 W

300 W

11% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

295.7 Gigapixels/s

52% significantly higher pixel rate

194.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

739.2 Gigatexels/s

35% slightly higher texture rate

544.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

23.65 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

47% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120

7168

40% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

42% many more texture mapping units

224

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

60% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

20th of 586

31st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 May

2023 April

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 6950 XT vs GeForce RTX 4070 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6950 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4070 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 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 GeForce RTX 4070 also has a slightly 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4070 has a slightly lower TDP at 300 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6950 XT at 335 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6950 XT is better than the GeForce RTX 4070.