Radeon RX 6950 XT

Radeon RX 6950 XT
  • Graphics Processor: Navi 21
  • Cores: 5120
  • TMUs / ROPs: 320 / 128

Review

Gaming
59
Workstation
59
AI/ML
56
Energy Efficiency
38
NanoReview Final Score
58
Compare Radeon RX 6950 XT with other GPUs

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
210
140
121
90
The Witcher 3
213
192
140
76
Counter-Strike 2
299
216
150
82
Far Cry 6
175
153
136
83
Hogwarts Legacy
129
107
83
46
CoD: Modern Warfare III
187
182
132
88
Ghost of Tsushima
138
113
96
57
Cyberpunk 2077
147
134
89
41
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
229
212
158
83
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 192
1080p Ultra 161
1440p Ultra 123
4K Ultra 72
Margin of Error Low

Test in Benchmarks

Performance tests in graphics benchmarks and applications

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
20794
Time Spy 21610
Solar Bay 89327
Port Royal 11269
Fire Strike 59854
Wild Life Extreme 40959
Night Raid 163309
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
189857
Background Blur 382.1 img/sec
Face Detection 259 img/sec
Horizon Detection 6.93 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 10.2 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 8.39 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.48 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 824.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 26538.1 FPS
API OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
12357

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
28058
G2D Mark 1083
DirectX 11 298 FPS
DirectX 12 115 FPS
GPU Compute 14128 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5] – 3849 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
2749.82
Sources: Blender [9] – 509 samples

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
33294
GB6 ML Half Precision
36737
GB6 ML Quantized
24655
Image Classification (SP) 14145
Image Segmentation (HP) 18828
Image Super Resolution (Q) 32309
Face Detection (HP) 49133
Pose Estimation (Q) 166767
Text Classification (SP) 4491
Machine Translation (HP) 6690
Object Detection (SP) 15446
Depth Estimation (Q) 56831
Style Transfer (SP) 367328
Framework ONNX
Backend DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Detailed technical specifications of the Radeon RX 6950 XT

General

Vendor Amd
Build Discrete
Released May 10, 2022
Launch price (MSRP) $1099
Case Desktop
Purpose Gaming
Segment High-end
Architecture RDNA 2.0
GPU Codename Navi 21
Nvidia Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 12700K or above
Desktop GPU rating - 24th place

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1860 MHz
Boost Clock 2310 MHz
Shading Units 5120
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 320
Render Output Units (ROPs) 128
Ray-tracing Cores 80
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 296 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 739 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
23.7 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 335 W
Manufacturing TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm
Die Size 520 mm²
Transistor Count 26 billion
Transistor Density 50 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB
Memory Clock 2250 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit
ECC No
Memory Bandwidth
576 GB/s

API

DirectX 12
Vulkan 1.3
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 2.1
Ray Tracing Yes
DLSS No
DisplayPort 1.4a

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