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

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 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 Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +80%

23.65 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

May 2022

Radeon Pro

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

1860 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

16GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

80

-

4096

Shading Units

5120

256

TMUs

320

64

ROPs

128

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

4 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

335W

750 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 Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Navi 21

Vega 10 XTX LCS

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

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

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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