AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT and AMD Radeon RX 6950 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
  • Around 4% higher boost clock speed: 2394 MHz vs 2310 MHz
  • Around 9% higher texture fill rate: 804.4 GTexel/s vs 739.2 GTexel/s
  • Around 5% higher pipelines: 5376 vs 5120
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
  • Around 12% lower typical power consumption: 300 Watt vs 335 Watt
  • Around 25% higher maximum memory size: 20 GB vs 16 GB
  • Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
  • Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1179 vs 1030
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 28846 vs 28158
  • Around 26% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 27044 vs 21420
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 Nov 2022 vs 10 May 2022
Boost clock speed 2394 MHz vs 2310 MHz
Texture fill rate 804.4 GTexel/s vs 739.2 GTexel/s
Pipelines 5376 vs 5120
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt vs 335 Watt
Maximum memory size 20 GB vs 16 GB
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1179 vs 1030
PassMark - G3D Mark 28846 vs 28158
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 27044 vs 21420

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

  • Around 24% higher core clock speed: 1860 MHz vs 1500 MHz
  • Around 1% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 171975 vs 169473
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1860 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 171975 vs 169473

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1179
1030
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
28846
28158
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
27044
21420
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
169473
171975
Name AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
PassMark - G2D Mark 1179 1030
PassMark - G3D Mark 28846 28158
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 27044 21420
Geekbench - OpenCL 169473 171975
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 343.519
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 12483.531
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 60.185
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 320.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2714.187

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 3.0 RDNA 2.0
Code name Navi 31 Navi 21
Launch date 3 Nov 2022 10 May 2022
Place in performance rating 17 19

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2394 MHz 2310 MHz
Compute units 84 80
Core clock speed 1500 MHz 1860 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 3.218 TFLOPS (1:16) 1,478 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 103.0 TFLOPS (2:1) 47.31 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 51.48 TFLOPS 23.65 TFLOPS
Pipelines 5376 5120
Pixel fill rate 459.6 GPixel/s 295.7 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 804.4 GTexel/s 739.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt 335 Watt
Transistor count 57700 million 26800 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Triple-slot
Height 51 mm, 2 inches 50 mm, 2 inches
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 276 mm, 10.9 inches 267 mm, 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 700 Watt 700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 2x 8-pin
Width 135 mm, 5.3 inches 120 mm, 4.7 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 2.1 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 20 GB 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 800.0 GB/s 576.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 320 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6