AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 9070

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 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
$ 609.69
$ 140.30 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14445 points
2% slightly better overall score
14149 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

292 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
291 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

213 FPS
217 FPS
4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

260 FPS
278 FPS
17 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

124 FPS
134 FPS
10 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4221 points
6282 points
48% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2747.99 points
0.18% slightly higher Blender score
2743.15 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

176249 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
135343 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

177326 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
167848 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2310 MHz
2520 MHz
9% slightly higher boost clock speed

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
640 GB/s
11% slightly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

295.7 Gigapixels/s
322.6 Gigapixels/s
9% slightly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

23.65 TFLOPS
36.1 TFLOPS
52% significantly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128
Identical
128

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

20th of 586
23rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 May
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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
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Radeon RX 6950 XT vs Radeon RX 9070 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 9070 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6950 XT in gaming.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 16 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 9070 is better than the Radeon RX 6950 XT.

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