GPU Comparison

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AMD

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

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

CORE STATE GM200

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1076 MHz

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

4,235

1,321

geekbench_metal

222,653

19,520

geekbench_opencl

175,410

43,259

geekbench_vulkan

164,748

47,724

passmark_directx_10

164

N/A

passmark_directx_11

300

N/A

passmark_directx_12

114

N/A

passmark_directx_9

303

N/A

passmark_g2d

1,063

N/A

passmark_g3d

28,070

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

14,199

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 6950 XT

GTX 980 Ti

Core Specs

Shading Units

5,120

2,816 -45.0%

Shaders

5,120

2,816 -45.0%

TMUs

320

176 -45.0%

ROPs

128

96 -25.0%

Compute Units

80

—

Clocks

Base Clock

1860 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

1076 MHz

Game Clock

2100 MHz

—

Memory Clock

2250 MHz 18 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

16 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

16,384

6,144 -62.5%

Memory Type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

576.0 GB/s

336.6 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

4 MB

3 MB

L3 Cache

128 MB

—

L0 Cache

32 KB per WGP

—

Performance

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

103.3 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

23.65 TFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

1,478.4 GFLOPS (1:16)

189.4 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

47.31 TFLOPS (2:1)

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AI/RT

RT Cores

80

—

Power

TDP

335 W

250 W

TDP (W)

335

250 -25.4%

Suggested PSU

700 W

600 W

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Navi 21

GM200

Generation

Navi II (RX 6000)

GeForce 900

Process Size

7 nm

28 nm

Transistors

26,800 million

8,000 million

Die Size

520 mm²

601 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

51.5M / mm²

13.3M / 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

649 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Navi

GeForce 700

Successor

Navi III

GeForce 10

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