AMD Radeon RX 5700 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 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 5700 's Advantages
Lower TDP (180W vs 335W)
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 34% (2310MHz vs 1725MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5700
7.949 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+197%
23.65 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 5700
8374
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+157%
21537
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 5700
3956
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+166%
10545
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 5700
35
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+145%
86
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 5700
68
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+129%
156
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 5700
105
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+103%
214
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
Radeon RX 5700
20
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+225%
65
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
Radeon RX 5700
31
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+145%
76
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
Radeon RX 5700
49
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+134%
115
Battlefield 5 2160p
Radeon RX 5700
51
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+139%
122
Battlefield 5 1440p
Radeon RX 5700
97
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+106%
200
Battlefield 5 1080p
Radeon RX 5700
135
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+48%
200
GTA 5 2160p
Radeon RX 5700
64
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+103%
130
GTA 5 1440p
Radeon RX 5700
74
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+105%
152
GTA 5 1080p
Radeon RX 5700
180
Radeon RX 6950 XT
+5%
189
Graphics Card
Jul 2019
Release Date
May 2022
Navi
Generation
Navi II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1465 MHz
Base Clock
1860 MHz
1725 MHz
Boost Clock
2310 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
576.0GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
80
-
-
-
2304
Shading Units
5120
144
TMUs
320
64
ROPs
128
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
80
-
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
4 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
L3 Cache
128 MB
Theoretical Performance
110.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
295.7 GPixel/s
248.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
739.2 GTexel/s
15.90 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
47.31 TFLOPS
7.949 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.65 TFLOPS
496.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1478 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
335W
450 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
Navi 21
Navi 10 XL
(215-0917220)
GPU Variant
Navi 21 KXTX
(215-121000289)
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
7 nm
10.3 billion
Transistors
26.8 billion
251 mm²
Die Size
520 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
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-
-
6.8
Shader Model
6.5
