AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Price

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$ 749.99

$ 566.99

$ 183.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14445 points

9% slightly better overall score

13240 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

292 FPS

310 FPS

17 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

213 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

156 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

260 FPS

32 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

229 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

124 FPS

125 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4221 points

5256 points

24% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2747.99 points

6174.82 points

124% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

176249 points

188870 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

177326 points

181089 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1890 MHz

2325 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2310 MHz

2512 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

672 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

335 W

250 W

34% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

295.7 Gigapixels/s

47% significantly higher pixel rate

201 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

739.2 Gigatexels/s

53% significantly higher texture rate

482.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120

6144

20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

66% significantly more texture mapping units

192

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

21st of 597

27th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 May

2025 March

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 5070 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6950 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 5070 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5070 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 5070 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5070 has a slightly lower TDP at 250 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 GeForce RTX 5070.