AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

Price

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$ 749.99

$ 70.00 slightly less expensive

$ 819.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14445 points

19081 points

32% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

292 FPS

424 FPS

132 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

213 FPS

223 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

260 FPS

323 FPS

63 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

124 FPS

180 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4221 points

6821 points

61% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2747.99 points

7588.31 points

176% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

176249 points

239264 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

177326 points

228386 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1890 MHz

2295 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2310 MHz

2452 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

576 GB/s

896 GB/s

55% significantly higher memory bandwidth

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

25% slightly higher pixel rate

235.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

739.2 Gigatexels/s

7% slightly higher texture rate

686.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120

8960

75% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

14% slightly more texture mapping units

280

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

20th of 586

11th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 May

2025 February

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 Ti comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6950 XT in our tests.

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