AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 7700 XT and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (2544MHz vs 2310MHz)

Lower TDP (245W vs 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7700 XT +48%

35.17 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

23.65 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 7700 XT

16991

Radeon RX 6950 XT +26%

21457

Blender

Radeon RX 7700 XT

2182

Radeon RX 6950 XT +38%

3023

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 7700 XT

64

Radeon RX 6950 XT +34%

86

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 7700 XT

128

Radeon RX 6950 XT +21%

156

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 7700 XT +1%

218

Radeon RX 6950 XT

214

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 7700 XT

30

Radeon RX 6950 XT +116%

65

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 7700 XT

68

Radeon RX 6950 XT +11%

76

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 7700 XT

102

Radeon RX 6950 XT +12%

115

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 7700 XT

110

Radeon RX 6950 XT +18%

130

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 7700 XT

112

Radeon RX 6950 XT +35%

152

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 7700 XT

190

Radeon RX 6950 XT

189

Radeon RX 7700 XT

VS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

May 2022

Navi III

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1435 MHz

Base Clock

1860 MHz

2544 MHz

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

432.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

54

Compute Units

80

-

3456

Shading Units

5120

216

TMUs

320

96

ROPs

128

-

54

RT Cores

80

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

48 MB

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

244.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

549.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

70.34 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

35.17 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

1099 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Board Design

245W

TDP

335W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 32

GPU Name

Navi 21

Navi 32 XL (215-180000076)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

7 nm

28.1 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

346 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.5

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