AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
  • Around 29% lower typical power consumption: 260 Watt vs 335 Watt
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1114 vs 1031
  • Around 5% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 22386 vs 21420
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 27 Jul 2023 vs 10 May 2022
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 260 Watt vs 335 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1114 vs 1031
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 22386 vs 21420

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

  • Around 24% higher core clock speed: 1860 MHz vs 1500 MHz
  • Around 3% higher boost clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 2245 MHz
  • Around 3% higher texture fill rate: 739.2 GTexel/s vs 718.4 GTexel/s
  • Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 28156 vs 26811
  • Around 4% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 172276 vs 165995
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1860 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Boost clock speed 2310 MHz vs 2245 MHz
Texture fill rate 739.2 GTexel/s vs 718.4 GTexel/s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 28156 vs 26811
Geekbench - OpenCL 172276 vs 165995

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1114
1031
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
26811
28156
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
165995
172276
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
22386
21420
Name AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
PassMark - G2D Mark 1114 1031
PassMark - G3D Mark 26811 28156
Geekbench - OpenCL 165995 172276
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 22386 21420

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 3.0 RDNA 2.0
Code name Navi 31 Navi 21
Launch date 27 Jul 2023 10 May 2022
Place in performance rating 18 19

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2245 MHz 2310 MHz
Compute units 80 80
Core clock speed 1500 MHz 1860 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 7 nm
Pipelines 5120 5120
Pixel fill rate 431.0 GPixel/s 295.7 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 718.4 GTexel/s 739.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 260 Watt 335 Watt
Transistor count 57700 million 26800 million
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

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) 600 Watt 700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 2x 8-pin
Width 110 mm, 4.3 inches 120 mm, 4.7 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 2.2 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

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