AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 560

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

AMD Radeon RX 560

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 81% (2310MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +805%

23.65 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1105%

21457

Radeon RX 560

1780

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +2766%

86

Radeon RX 560

3

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1200%

156

Radeon RX 560

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +919%

214

Radeon RX 560

21

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1009%

122

Radeon RX 560

11

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +525%

200

Radeon RX 560

32

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +400%

200

Radeon RX 560

40

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +101%

189

Radeon RX 560

94

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

Radeon RX 560

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Apr 2017

Navi II

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

1175 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

16

-

5120

Shading Units

1024

320

TMUs

64

128

ROPs

16

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

335W

TDP

75W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Polaris 21

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

3 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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