NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

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NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (20GB vs 16GB)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (2310MHz vs 2175MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +13%

26.73 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

23.65 TFLOPS

Blender

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +68%

4876

Radeon RX 6950 XT

2889

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

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Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

May 2022

Quadro Ada

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1860 MHz

2175 MHz

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

20GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

160bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

-

Compute Units

80

6144

Shading Units

5120

192

TMUs

320

80

ROPs

128

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

80

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

48 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

174.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

417.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

26.73 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

26.73 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Navi 21

-

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

7 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

335W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.5

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