AMD Radeon RX 560X vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560X

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 81% (2310MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560X

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +805%

23.65 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X

VS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

May 2022

Polaris

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

1860 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

80

-

1024

Shading Units

5120

64

TMUs

320

16

ROPs

128

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

335W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Navi 21

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

3 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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