NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation 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.

NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
Around 20% higher pipelines: 6144 vs 5120
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
4.8x lower typical power consumption: 70 Watt vs 335 Watt
Around 25% higher maximum memory size: 20 GB vs 16 GB
Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1101 vs 1054

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 Mar 2023 vs 10 May 2022
Pipelines	6144 vs 5120
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 Watt vs 335 Watt
Maximum memory size	20 GB vs 16 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	1101 vs 1054

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Around 44% higher core clock speed: 1860 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Around 48% higher boost clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 1565 MHz
2.5x more texture fill rate: 739.2 GTexel/s vs 300.5 GTexel/s
Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Around 39% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 28097 vs 20215
Around 41% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 174868 vs 124062

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1860 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Boost clock speed	2310 MHz vs 1565 MHz
Texture fill rate	739.2 GTexel/s vs 300.5 GTexel/s
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	28097 vs 20215
Geekbench - OpenCL	174868 vs 124062

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1101

1054

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

20215

28097

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

124062

174868

Name	NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation	AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
PassMark - G2D Mark	1101	1054
PassMark - G3D Mark	20215	28097
Geekbench - OpenCL	124062	174868
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4235

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation	AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	RDNA 2.0
Code name	AD104	Navi 21
Launch date	21 Mar 2023	10 May 2022
Place in performance rating	36	37
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1565 MHz	2310 MHz
Core clock speed	1290 MHz	1860 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Pipelines	6144	5120
Pixel fill rate	125.2 GPixel/s	295.7 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	300.5 GTexel/s	739.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 Watt	335 Watt
Transistor count	35800 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	4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	Triple-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	168 mm, 6.6 inches	267 mm, 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt	700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 8-pin
Width	69 mm, 2.7 inches	120 mm, 4.7 inches
Height		50 mm, 2 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	20 GB	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	280.0 GB/s	576.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	160 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6