AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14445 points

16967 points

17% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

292 FPS

394 FPS

102 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

213 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

260 FPS

288 FPS

28 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

124 FPS

163 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2747.99 points

7942.06 points

189% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

176249 points

215096 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

177326 points

191283 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1890 MHz

90% significantly higher core clock speed

990 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2310 MHz

52% significantly higher boost clock speed

1515 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

95 W

252% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

295.7 Gigapixels/s

74% significantly higher pixel rate

169.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

739.2 Gigatexels/s

48% significantly higher texture rate

496.9 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120

10496

104% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

328

2% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

14% slightly more render output processors

112

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

20th of 586

14th of 586

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 5090 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop beats the Radeon RX 6950 XT in gaming performance.

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 boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 95 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 GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop is faster than the Radeon RX 6950 XT.