AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 Vega 56 's Advantages

Lower TDP (210W vs 335W)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56

10.54 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +124%

23.65 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 56

6873

Radeon RX 6950 XT +212%

21448

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56

30

Radeon RX 6950 XT +186%

86

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56

57

Radeon RX 6950 XT +173%

156

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56

87

Radeon RX 6950 XT +145%

214

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56

52

Radeon RX 6950 XT +134%

122

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56

93

Radeon RX 6950 XT +115%

200

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56

125

Radeon RX 6950 XT +60%

200

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56

46

Radeon RX 6950 XT +182%

130

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56

91

Radeon RX 6950 XT +67%

152

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56

110

Radeon RX 6950 XT +71%

189

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

May 2022

Vega

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

1860 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

80

3584

Shading Units

5120

224

TMUs

320

64

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

4 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Navi 21

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

335W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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