AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT 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 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (2310MHz vs 1845MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

3712 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +355%

23.65 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

5.196 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6950 XT +336%

21457

Radeon RX 5500 XT

4915

Blender

Radeon RX 6950 XT +465%

3023

Radeon RX 5500 XT

535

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +273%

86

Radeon RX 5500 XT

23

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +262%

156

Radeon RX 5500 XT

43

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +201%

214

Radeon RX 5500 XT

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +269%

122

Radeon RX 5500 XT

33

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +212%

200

Radeon RX 5500 XT

64

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +127%

200

Radeon RX 5500 XT

88

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +209%

130

Radeon RX 5500 XT

42

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +157%

152

Radeon RX 5500 XT

59

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +52%

189

Radeon RX 5500 XT

124

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Dec 2019

Navi II

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

22

-

5120

Shading Units

1408

320

TMUs

88

128

ROPs

32

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

335W

TDP

130W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Navi 14

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

7 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5

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