AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 532.6GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (2520MHz vs 2310MHz)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT

23.65 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070 +36%

32.26 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 5070

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Jan 2025

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

532.6GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

-

SM Count

50

5120

Shading Units

6400

320

TMUs

200

128

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

200

80

RT Cores

50

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

40 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

161.3 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

504.0 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

32.26 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

32.26 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

504.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

335W

TDP

220W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GB205

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

GB205

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

4 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

520 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

10.1

6.5

Shader Model

6.8

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