NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 26% higher core clock speed: 2340 MHz vs 1860 MHz
Around 13% higher boost clock speed: 2610 MHz vs 2310 MHz
Around 65% higher pipelines: 8448 vs 5120
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
Around 18% lower typical power consumption: 285 Watt vs 335 Watt
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1206 vs 1044
Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 31743 vs 28149
Around 28% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 222987 vs 174045
Around 13% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 24220 vs 21442

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 Jan 2024 vs 10 May 2022
Core clock speed	2340 MHz vs 1860 MHz
Boost clock speed	2610 MHz vs 2310 MHz
Pipelines	8448 vs 5120
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	285 Watt vs 335 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	1206 vs 1044
PassMark - G3D Mark	31743 vs 28149
Geekbench - OpenCL	222987 vs 174045
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	24220 vs 21442

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Around 7% higher texture fill rate: 739.2 GTexel/s vs 689.0 GTexel/s
Around 71% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Texture fill rate	739.2 GTexel/s vs 689.0 GTexel/s
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1206

1044

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

31743

28149

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

222987

174045

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

24220

21442

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER	AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
PassMark - G2D Mark	1206	1044
PassMark - G3D Mark	31743	28149
Geekbench - OpenCL	222987	174045
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	24220	21442
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	363.635
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	61.731
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	116.521
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	3080.809

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER	AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	RDNA 2.0
Code name	AD103	Navi 21
Launch date	8 Jan 2024	10 May 2022
Place in performance rating	19	20
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2610 MHz	2310 MHz
Core clock speed	2340 MHz	1860 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Pipelines	8448	5120
Pixel fill rate	250.6 GPixel/s	295.7 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	689.0 GTexel/s	739.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	285 Watt	335 Watt
Transistor count	45900 million	26800 million
Compute units		80
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 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Triple-slot	Triple-slot
Height	61 mm, 2.4 inches	50 mm, 2 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	310 mm, 12.2 inches	267 mm, 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt	700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 16-pin	2x 8-pin
Width	140 mm, 5.5 inches	120 mm, 4.7 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	3.0	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	672.3 GB/s	576.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6X	GDDR6