AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 749.99
$ 539.99
$ 210.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14445 points
18321 points
26% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

292 FPS
374 FPS
82 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

213 FPS
261 FPS
49 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

260 FPS
344 FPS
83 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

124 FPS
151 FPS
27 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4221 points
4804 points
13% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2747.99 points
2797.04 points
1% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

176249 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
168118 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

177326 points
186034 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2310 MHz
2% slightly higher boost clock speed
2245 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB
Identical
16 GiB

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
Identical
576 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

335 W
260 W
28% slightly lower TDP

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

23.65 TFLOPS
46 TFLOPS
94% significantly better floating point performance

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

20th of 586
12th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 May
2023 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
-

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
-

Radeon RX 6950 XT vs Radeon RX 7900 GRE comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6950 XT in gaming.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 16 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE has a slightly lower TDP at 260 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6950 XT at 335 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE is better than the Radeon RX 6950 XT.

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