AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 137% (2815MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.9GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 107W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT +215%

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6500 XT +164%

4918

GeForce GTX 950

1862

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT +200%

15

GeForce GTX 950

5

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT +55%

31

GeForce GTX 950

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT +56%

47

GeForce GTX 950

30

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Aug 2015

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1024 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

107W

TDP

90W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

GM206

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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