AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop

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

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14445 points

74% significantly better overall score

8298 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

292 FPS

110 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

182 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

213 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

104 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

260 FPS

114 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

146 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

124 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

85 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2747.99 points

4023.53 points

46% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

176249 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

124552 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

177326 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

115530 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1890 MHz

108% significantly higher core clock speed

907 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2310 MHz

62% significantly higher boost clock speed

1425 MHz

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

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

335 W

50 W

570% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

295.7 Gigapixels/s

332% significantly higher pixel rate

68.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

739.2 Gigatexels/s

260% significantly higher texture rate

205.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120

11% slightly more shading units

4608

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

122% significantly more texture mapping units

144

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

20th of 586

50th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 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 5070 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6950 XT beats the GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6950 XT has a significantly 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 Radeon RX 6950 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6950 XT at 335 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6950 XT over the GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop.