Radeon RX 6950 XT vs Radeon HD 4860
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4860 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock2310MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
4480 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 4860 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 335W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+2539%
23650
Radeon HD 4860
896
Graphics Card
May 2022
Release Date
Sep 2009
Navi II
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1860 MHz
Base Clock
-
2310 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
576.0GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
80
Compute Units
8
5120
Shading Units
640
320
TMUs
32
128
ROPs
16
80
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
128 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
295.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.20 GPixel/s
739.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
22.40 GTexel/s
47.31 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
23.65 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
896.0 GFLOPS
1478 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
179.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
335W
TDP
130W
700 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 21
GPU Name
RV790
Navi 21 KXTX
(215-121000289)
GPU Variant
RV790 GT
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
55 nm
26.8 billion
Transistors
0.959 billion
520 mm²
Die Size
282 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.5
Shader Model
4.1
