AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 590 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (2310MHz vs 1545MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +232%

23.65 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 590

4760

Radeon RX 6950 XT +350%

21448

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 590

24

Radeon RX 6950 XT +258%

86

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 590

46

Radeon RX 6950 XT +239%

156

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 590

71

Radeon RX 6950 XT +201%

214

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 590

39

Radeon RX 6950 XT +212%

122

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 590

74

Radeon RX 6950 XT +170%

200

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 590

101

Radeon RX 6950 XT +98%

200

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 590

42

Radeon RX 6950 XT +209%

130

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 590

67

Radeon RX 6950 XT +126%

152

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 590

110

Radeon RX 6950 XT +71%

189

Radeon RX 590

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Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

May 2022

Polaris

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

1860 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

80

2304

Shading Units

5120

144

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

Navi 21

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

175W

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 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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