Radeon RX 6950 XT vs RX 5950 XT

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated17
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data27.15
Power efficiencyno data14.94
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 21Navi 21
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data10 May 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,099

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores51205120
Core clock speedno data1925 MHz
Boost clock speed1635 MHz2324 MHz
Number of transistors21,000 million26,800 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)350 Watt335 Watt
Texture fill rate523.2743.7
Floating-point processing power16.74 TFLOPS23.8 TFLOPS
ROPs96128
TMUs320320
Ray Tracing Coresno data80

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width2-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount24 GB16 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth672.0 GB/s576.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI++

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12.0 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 16 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 350 Watt 335 Watt

RX 5950 XT has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RX 6950 XT, on the other hand, has 4.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5950 XT and Radeon RX 6950 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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