AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 57% (2310MHz vs 1471MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 409.6GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Lower TDP (210W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +124%

23.65 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

10.54 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6950 XT +211%

21457

Radeon RX Vega 56

6878

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +186%

86

Radeon RX Vega 56

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +173%

156

Radeon RX Vega 56

57

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +145%

214

Radeon RX Vega 56

87

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +134%

122

Radeon RX Vega 56

52

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +115%

200

Radeon RX Vega 56

93

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +60%

200

Radeon RX Vega 56

125

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +182%

130

Radeon RX Vega 56

46

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +67%

152

Radeon RX Vega 56

91

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +71%

189

Radeon RX Vega 56

110

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Aug 2017

Navi II

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

1156 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

56

-

5120

Shading Units

3584

320

TMUs

224

128

ROPs

64

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

335W

TDP

210W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Vega 10

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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