AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT and AMD Radeon RX Vega XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 24% higher core clock speed: 1860 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Around 42% higher boost clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 1630 MHz
1771.4x more texture fill rate: 739.2 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
Around 25% higher pipelines: 5120 vs 4096
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 8 GB
Around 19% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1890 MHz

Launch date	10 May 2022 vs 8 August 2017
Core clock speed	1860 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Boost clock speed	2310 MHz vs 1630 MHz
Texture fill rate	739.2 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
Pipelines	5120 vs 4096
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1890 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Around 49% lower typical power consumption: 225 Watt vs 335 Watt
Around 13% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 196748 vs 174317

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt vs 335 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	196748 vs 174317

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

174317

196748

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT	AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
PassMark - G2D Mark	1047
PassMark - G3D Mark	28130
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4233
Geekbench - OpenCL	174317	196748

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT	AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	GCN 5.0
Code name	Navi 21	Vega 10
Launch date	10 May 2022	8 August 2017
Place in performance rating	33	30
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2310 MHz	1630 MHz
Compute units	80
Core clock speed	1860 MHz	1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	1,478 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	47.31 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	23.65 TFLOPS
Pipelines	5120	4096
Pixel fill rate	295.7 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	739.2 GTexel/s	417.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	335 Watt	225 Watt
Transistor count	26800 million
Floating-point performance		13,353 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Triple-slot
Height	50 mm, 2 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm, 10.5 inches	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	2x 8-pin
Width	120 mm, 4.7 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	576.0 GB/s	483.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	1890 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2