AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT 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 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (225W vs 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (2310MHz vs 1905MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 XT

9.754 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +142%

23.65 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5700 XT

9474

Radeon RX 6950 XT +126%

21457

Blender

Radeon RX 5700 XT

1124

Radeon RX 6950 XT +168%

3023

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5700 XT

39

Radeon RX 6950 XT +120%

86

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5700 XT

74

Radeon RX 6950 XT +110%

156

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5700 XT

111

Radeon RX 6950 XT +92%

214

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 5700 XT

26

Radeon RX 6950 XT +150%

65

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 5700 XT

35

Radeon RX 6950 XT +117%

76

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 5700 XT

57

Radeon RX 6950 XT +101%

115

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5700 XT

59

Radeon RX 6950 XT +106%

122

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5700 XT

113

Radeon RX 6950 XT +76%

200

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5700 XT

142

Radeon RX 6950 XT +40%

200

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5700 XT

65

Radeon RX 6950 XT +100%

130

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5700 XT

80

Radeon RX 6950 XT +90%

152

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5700 XT

186

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1%

189

Radeon RX 5700 XT

VS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

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

1605 MHz

Base Clock

1860 MHz

1905 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

40

Compute Units

80

-

2560

Shading Units

5120

160

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

121.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

304.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

19.51 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

9.754 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

609.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

335W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 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 XT (215-0917210)

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

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5

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