AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Price

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$ 749.99

$ 679.99

$ 70.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14445 points

19220 points

33% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

292 FPS

393 FPS

101 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

213 FPS

273 FPS

61 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

260 FPS

362 FPS

101 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

124 FPS

158 FPS

34 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 4K

75 FPS

106 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 4K

66 FPS

85 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Resident Evil 4 FPS

Ultra settings at 4K

78 FPS

89 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Resident Evil 4 FPS

Assassin's Creed Mirage FPS

Very High settings at 4K

86 FPS

93 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Assassin's Creed Mirage FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4221 points

5616 points

33% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2747.99 points

3540.90 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

176249 points

187759 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

177326 points

213258 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1890 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

1800 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2310 MHz

2400 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB

20 GiB

25% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

576 GB/s

800 GB/s

38% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

335 W

315 W

6% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

295.7 Gigapixels/s

460 Gigapixels/s

55% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

739.2 Gigatexels/s

810 Gigatexels/s

9% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

23.65 TFLOPS

54.07 TFLOPS

128% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120

12288

139% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

768

139% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

192

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

20th of 586

10th 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

2022 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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 XT comparison

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

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6950 XT 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 7900 XT 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 7900 XT has slightly more memory with 20 GiB of memory compared to 16 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 7900 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 315 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 XT is better than the Radeon RX 6950 XT.