GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD 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
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX 980
CORE STATE
GM204
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1216 MHz
TDP
165 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 6950 XT
GTX 980
Core Specs
Shading Units
5,120
2,048
-60.0%
Shaders
5,120
2,048
-60.0%
TMUs
320
128
-60.0%
ROPs
128
64
-50.0%
Compute Units
80
—
Clocks
Base Clock
1860 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
2310 MHz
1216 MHz
Game Clock
2100 MHz
—
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
16 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
16,384
4,096
-75.0%
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
576.0 GB/s
224.4 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
2 MB
L3 Cache
128 MB
—
L0 Cache
32 KB per WGP
—
Performance
Pixel Rate
295.7 GPixel/s
77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
739.2 GTexel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
23.65 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
1,478.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
47.31 TFLOPS (2:1)
—
AI/RT
RT Cores
80
—
Power
TDP
335 W
165 W
TDP (W)
335
165
-50.7%
Suggested PSU
700 W
450 W
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
Navi 21
GM204
Generation
Navi II
(RX 6000)
GeForce 900
Process Size
7 nm
28 nm
Transistors
26,800 million
5,200 million
Die Size
520 mm²
398 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
51.5M / mm²
13.1M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
5.2
Shader Model
6.8
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Triple-slot
Dual-slot
Length
267 mm
10.5 inches
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
120 mm
4.7 inches
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.12x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
1,099 USD
549 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Navi
GeForce 700
Successor
Navi III
GeForce 10