AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs GeForce RTX 4080
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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
Navi 21
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080
AD103
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6950 XT with 5120 shaders against the 4 months newer GeForce RTX 4080 that utilizes 76 pipelines and 9728 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 GeForce RTX 4080
- Performs significantly better (up to 45%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2.1x higher maximum theoretical performance (48.7 vs 23.7 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- Shows 20% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 148 vs 123 FPS
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
- Has 24% higher memory bandwidth: 716.8 vs 576 GB/s
- Has 90% more shading units (9728 vs 5120)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 210 140 121 90 |
229 170 154 120 |
| The Witcher 3 | 213 192 140 76 |
245 210 157 81 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 299 216 150 82 |
306 220 168 85 |
| Far Cry 6 | 175 153 136 83 |
181 163 143 88 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 129 107 83 46 |
162 136 109 59 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 187 182 132 88 |
217 213 167 111 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 138 113 96 57 |
148 126 109 69 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 147 134 89 41 |
192 177 119 54 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 229 212 158 83 |
290 265 204 107 |
| 1080p High | 192 | 219 |
| 1080p Ultra | 161 | 187 |
| 1440p Ultra | 123 | 148 |
| 4K Ultra | 72 | 86 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 21610 | 28155 |
| Solar Bay | 89327 | 136995 |
| Port Royal | 11269 | 17984 |
| Fire Strike | 59854 | 64637 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 40959 | 59123 |
| Night Raid | 163309 | 185072 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 382.1 img/sec | 250.4 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 259 img/sec | 190 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 6.93 Gpixels/sec | 9.56 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 10.2 Gpixels/sec | 12.8 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 8.39 Gpixels/sec | 15.3 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.48 Gpixels/sec | 1.97 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 824.3 Gpixels/sec | 1130 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 26538.1 FPS | 28795.5 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1083 | 1251 |
| DirectX 11 | 298 FPS | 313 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 115 FPS | 133 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 14128 Ops/s | 20303 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 6950 XT
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4080
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-05-02 (Rennsport) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 267332 |
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 | 13466 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 18828 | 34767 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 32309 | 42687 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 49133 | 70927 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 166767 | 239350 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 4491 | 3606 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 6690 | 6519 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 15446 | 18153 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 56831 | 65667 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 367328 | 414848 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6950 XT and GeForce RTX 4080General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | May 10, 2022 | September 20, 2022 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $1099 | $1199 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | Navi 21 | AD103 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER | - Radeon RX 7900 XTX |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5080 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 12700K or above | - Intel Core i7 14700K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (24th and 10th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1860 MHz | 2205 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2310 MHz | 2505 MHz |
| Shading Units | 5120 | 9728 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 320 | 304 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 128 | 112 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 76 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 304 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 80 | 76 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 4MB shared | 64MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 296 GPixel/s | 281 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 739 GTexel/s | 762 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 335 W | 320 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 7 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 520 mm² | 379 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 26 billion | 45 billion |
| Transistor Density | 50 MTr/mm² | 118.73 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6X |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2250 MHz | 1400 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 18000 Mbps | 22400 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 256-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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