GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon R9 M265X
CORE STATE
Venus
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
625 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
VS
RADEON
Radeon RX 6950 XT
CORE STATE
Navi 21
VRAM
16 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2310 MHz
TDP
335 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
RDNA 2.0
PROCESS
7 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2022
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
R9 M265X
RX 6950 XT
Core Specs
Shading Units
640
5,120
+700.0%
Shaders
640
5,120
+700.0%
TMUs
40
320
+700.0%
ROPs
16
128
+700.0%
Compute Units
10
80
+700.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
575 MHz
1860 MHz
Boost Clock
625 MHz
2310 MHz
Game Clock
—
2100 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
4 Gbps effective
2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
16 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
16,384
+700.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
64.00 GB/s
576.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB per Array
L2 Cache
256 KB
4 MB
L3 Cache
—
128 MB
L0 Cache
—
32 KB per WGP
Performance
Pixel Rate
10.00 GPixel/s
295.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
25.00 GTexel/s
739.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
800.0 GFLOPS
23.65 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
50.00 GFLOPS (1:16)
1,478.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
47.31 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
80
Power
TDP
—
335 W
TDP (W)
—
335
Suggested PSU
—
700 W
Power Connectors
—
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
RDNA 2.0
GPU Name
Venus
Navi 21
Generation
Gem System
(R9 M200)
Navi II
(RX 6000)
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
1,500 million
26,800 million
Die Size
123 mm²
520 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.2M / mm²
51.5M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.4
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
—
Triple-slot
Length
—
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
—
120 mm
4.7 inches
Outputs
—
1x HDMI 2.12x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
1,099 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Solar System
Navi
Successor
Polaris Mobile
Navi III