NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 5000 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 5000 Ada Generation

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

Around 8% higher boost clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 2310 MHz
3x more pipelines: 15360 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
2x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 16 GB
Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective

Boost clock speed	2505 MHz vs 2310 MHz
Pipelines	15360 vs 5120
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt vs 335 Watt
Maximum memory size	32 GB vs 16 GB
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

2x more core clock speed: 1860 MHz vs 915 MHz
615x more texture fill rate: 739.2 GTexel/s vs 1,202 GTexel/s
Around 39% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1053 vs 759
Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 28122 vs 23983
Around 18% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 174778 vs 148269

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1860 MHz vs 915 MHz
Texture fill rate	739.2 GTexel/s vs 1,202 GTexel/s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	1053 vs 759
PassMark - G3D Mark	28122 vs 23983
Geekbench - OpenCL	174778 vs 148269

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

759

1053

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

23983

28122

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

148269

174778

Name	NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation	AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
PassMark - G2D Mark	759	1053
PassMark - G3D Mark	23983	28122
Geekbench - OpenCL	148269	174778
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4232

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation	AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	RDNA 2.0
Code name	AD102	Navi 21
Place in performance rating	37	34
Launch date		10 May 2022
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2505 MHz	2310 MHz
Core clock speed	915 MHz	1860 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Pipelines	15360	5120
Pixel fill rate	440.9 GPixel/s	295.7 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	1,202 GTexel/s	739.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	335 Watt
Transistor count	76300 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 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	267 mm, 10.5 inches	267 mm, 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	700 Watt	700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 16-pin	2x 8-pin
Width	112 mm, 4.4 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	32 GB	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	960.0 GB/s	576.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	384 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6