AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT AMD Radeon R9 295X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2310MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (335W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +312%

23.65 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

5.733 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

Radeon R9 295X2

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Apr 2014

Navi II

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

-

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

80

Compute Units

44

5120

Shading Units

2816

320

TMUs

176

128

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.15 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.2 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.733 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Vesuvius

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

335W

TDP

500W

700 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.3

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