AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 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 5080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14445 points

3% slightly better overall score

13945 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

292 FPS

323 FPS

30 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

213 FPS

39 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

174 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

260 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

241 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

124 FPS

136 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2747.99 points

6555.01 points

138% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

176249 points

179169 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

177326 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

164101 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1890 MHz

93% significantly higher core clock speed

975 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2310 MHz

53% significantly higher boost clock speed

1500 MHz

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

80 W

318% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

295.7 Gigapixels/s

105% significantly higher pixel rate

144 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

739.2 Gigatexels/s

105% significantly higher texture rate

360 Gigatexels/s

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

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

21st of 597

25th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 May

2025 April

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 5080 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6950 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop in our tests.

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 5080 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 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 Radeon RX 6950 XT over the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop.