AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Price

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$ 749.99

$ 294.49

$ 455.50 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14445 points

75% significantly better overall score

8215 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

292 FPS

101 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

191 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

213 FPS

117 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

95 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

260 FPS

122 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

139 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

124 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

75 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4221 points

34% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3149 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2747.99 points

3690.41 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

176249 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

126840 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

177326 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

120026 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1890 MHz

2280 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2310 MHz

2497 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

576 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

448 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

335 W

145 W

131% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

295.7 Gigapixels/s

146% significantly higher pixel rate

119.9 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

739.2 Gigatexels/s

146% significantly higher texture rate

299.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120

33% slightly more shading units

3840

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

166% significantly more texture mapping units

120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

21st of 602

51st of 602

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 May

2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

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 5060 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6950 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 5060 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 5060 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 5060 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5060 has a significantly lower TDP at 145 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 5060.