NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 94% (2310MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1195%

23.65 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 950

1869

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1047%

21448

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 950

5

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1620%

86

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 950

20

Radeon RX 6950 XT +680%

156

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 950

30

Radeon RX 6950 XT +613%

214

GeForce GTX 950

VS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

May 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

1860 MHz

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

80

768

Shading Units

5120

48

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Navi 21

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

335W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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