AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (2310MHz vs 1683MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +265%

23.65 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

6.463 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon RX 6950 XT +360%

3023

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

657

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Dec 2018

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

5120

Shading Units

1920

320

TMUs

120

128

ROPs

64

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

335W

TDP

150W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GP104

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

16 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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