AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
Navi 21
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB with 5120 shaders against the 1 year and 8 months newer GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 12 GB that utilizes 56 pipelines and 7168 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Value for money (Beta)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6950 XT
- Includes 4 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
- 50% higher maximum theoretical performance (35.5 vs 23.7 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
- Has 40% more shading units (7168 vs 5120)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 210 140 121 90 |
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| The Witcher 3 | 213 192 140 76 |
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| Counter-Strike 2 | 299 216 150 82 |
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| Far Cry 6 | 175 153 136 83 |
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| Hogwarts Legacy | 129 107 83 46 |
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| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 187 182 132 88 |
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| Ghost of Tsushima | 138 113 96 57 |
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| Cyberpunk 2077 | 147 134 89 41 |
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| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 229 212 158 83 |
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| 1080p High | 192 | - |
| 1080p Ultra | 161 | - |
| 1440p Ultra | 123 | - |
| 4K Ultra | 72 | - |
| Margin of Error | Low | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 21610 | 20879 |
| Solar Bay | 89327 | 98188 |
| Port Royal | 11269 | 13123 |
| Fire Strike | 59854 | 50092 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 40959 | 41625 |
| Night Raid | 163309 | 164614 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 382.1 img/sec | 359.5 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 259 img/sec | 210 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 6.93 Gpixels/sec | 7.61 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 10.2 Gpixels/sec | 10.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 8.39 Gpixels/sec | 11.3 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.48 Gpixels/sec | 1.97 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 824.3 Gpixels/sec | 969.3 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 26538.1 FPS | 29061.4 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1083 | 1193 |
| DirectX 11 | 298 FPS | 271 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 115 FPS | 110 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 14128 Ops/s | 16925 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 6950 XT
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-12-08 (Rickey) | Cinebench 2024 | 19110 |
| 📘 2025-11-28 (Caleb) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 212148 |
| 📘 2025-11-28 (Caleb) | Cinebench 2024 | 20703 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 14145 | 12146 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 18828 | 23932 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 32309 | 36321 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 49133 | 52836 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 166767 | 179788 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 4491 | 3371 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 6690 | 5017 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 15446 | 15164 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 56831 | 62500 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 367328 | 357489 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6950 XT and GeForce RTX 4070 SUPERGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | May 10, 2022 | January 17, 2024 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $1099 | $599 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | Navi 21 | AD104 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER | - Radeon RX 7900 XT |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 12700K or above | - Intel Core i7 14700K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (24th and 19th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1860 MHz | 1980 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2310 MHz | 2475 MHz |
| Shading Units | 5120 | 7168 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 320 | 224 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 128 | 80 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 56 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 224 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 80 | 56 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 4MB shared | 48MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 296 GPixel/s | 198 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 739 GTexel/s | 554 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 335 W | 220 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 7 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 520 mm² | 294 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 26 billion | 35 billion |
| Transistor Density | 50 MTr/mm² | 119.05 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6X |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2250 MHz | 1313 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 18000 Mbps | 21000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 8.9 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 3 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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