AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (2310MHz vs 1600MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 483.8GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (335W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +80%

23.65 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Jul 2017

Navi II

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

64

-

5120

Shading Units

4096

320

TMUs

256

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

102.4 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

335W

TDP

375W

700 W

Suggested PSU

750 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 XTX LCS

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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