AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 749.99
$ 23.50 slightly less expensive
$ 773.49

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14445 points
16263 points
12% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

292 FPS
383 FPS
91 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

213 FPS
25 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
188 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

260 FPS
278 FPS
18 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

124 FPS
154 FPS
30 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 4K

75 FPS
84 FPS
9 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS
God of War FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 4K

89 FPS
14 FPS slightly higher God of War FPS
75 FPS
Rainbow Six Siege FPS

Rainbow Six Siege FPS

Ultra settings at 4K

84 FPS
183 FPS
99 FPS significantly higher Rainbow Six Siege FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4221 points
5035 points
19% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2747.99 points
6656.46 points
142% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

176249 points
205515 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

177326 points
188957 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1890 MHz
2310 MHz
22% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2310 MHz
2610 MHz
12% 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
33% slightly larger memory bus width
192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

576 GB/s
14% slightly higher memory bandwidth
504.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

335 W
285 W
17% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

295.7 Gigapixels/s
41% slightly higher pixel rate
208.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

739.2 Gigatexels/s
18% slightly higher texture rate
626.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

23.65 TFLOPS
40.09 TFLOPS
69% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120
7680
49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320
33% slightly more texture mapping units
240

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128
60% significantly more render output processors
80

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

20th of 586
15th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 May
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 6950 XT vs GeForce RTX 4070 Ti comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6950 XT in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 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 GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6950 XT has slightly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 285 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6950 XT at 335 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is faster than the Radeon RX 6950 XT.

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