AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7800 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

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (2430MHz vs 2310MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 576.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (263W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT

23.65 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7800 XT +57%

37.32 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6950 XT +7%

21457

Radeon RX 7800 XT

20031

Blender

Radeon RX 6950 XT +13%

3023

Radeon RX 7800 XT

2652

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +4%

86

Radeon RX 7800 XT

82

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

156

Radeon RX 7800 XT +1%

158

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

214

Radeon RX 7800 XT +9%

234

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +71%

65

Radeon RX 7800 XT

38

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

76

Radeon RX 7800 XT +7%

82

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

115

Radeon RX 7800 XT +9%

126

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

130

Radeon RX 7800 XT +7%

140

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +8%

152

Radeon RX 7800 XT

140

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

189

Radeon RX 7800 XT

190

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

Radeon RX 7800 XT

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Aug 2023

Navi II

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

1295 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

2430 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

2438 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

624.1GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

60

-

5120

Shading Units

3840

320

TMUs

240

128

ROPs

96

-

80

RT Cores

60

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

4 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

233.3 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

583.2 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

74.65 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.32 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1166 GFLOPS

Board Design

335W

TDP

263W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Navi 32

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

Navi 32 XT (215-180000006)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

5 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

28.1 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

346 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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