AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

593 points

14445 points

2335% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

292 FPS

280 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

213 FPS

203 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

260 FPS

249 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

124 FPS

119 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1426 points

4221 points

196% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points

2747.99 points

3000% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

10718 points

224476 points

1994% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points

176249 points

1795% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points

177326 points

1455% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1890 MHz

530% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2000 MHz

2310 MHz

15% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

644% significantly lower TDP

335 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s

295.7 Gigapixels/s

1748% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s

739.2 Gigatexels/s

1054% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.05 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

1054% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

5120

900% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

900% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

1500% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

309th of 586

20th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2022 May

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 Vega 8 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6950 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6950 XT has a significantly 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 6950 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6950 XT at 335 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6950 XT is faster than the Radeon Vega 8.