AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7800 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 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)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7800 XT +57%

37.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

23.65 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 7800 XT

20031

Radeon RX 6950 XT +7%

21457

Blender

Radeon RX 7800 XT

2652

Radeon RX 6950 XT +13%

3023

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 7800 XT

82

Radeon RX 6950 XT +4%

86

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +1%

158

Radeon RX 6950 XT

156

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +9%

234

Radeon RX 6950 XT

214

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 7800 XT

38

Radeon RX 6950 XT +71%

65

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +7%

82

Radeon RX 6950 XT

76

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +9%

126

Radeon RX 6950 XT

115

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +7%

140

Radeon RX 6950 XT

130

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 7800 XT

140

Radeon RX 6950 XT +8%

152

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 7800 XT

190

Radeon RX 6950 XT

189

Radeon RX 7800 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

1295 MHz

Base Clock

1860 MHz

2430 MHz

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

2438 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

624.1GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

60

Compute Units

80

-

3840

Shading Units

5120

240

TMUs

320

96

ROPs

128

-

60

RT Cores

80

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

4 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

64 MB

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

233.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

583.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

74.65 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

37.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

1166 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Board Design

263W

TDP

335W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

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 XT (215-180000006)

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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