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Radeon RX 6800 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

The Radeon RX 6800 uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1700 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 3840 SPUs along with 240 Texture Address Units and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which has core speeds of 1925 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 5120 SPUs as well as 320 Texture Address Units and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6800 250 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT 335 Watts
Difference: 85 Watts (34%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should in theory be a bit superior to the Radeon RX 6800 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT 589824 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6800 524288 MB/sec
Difference: 65536 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is a lot (approximately 51%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 6800. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT 616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 6800 408000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 208000 (51%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT 246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 6800 163200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 83200 (51%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon RX 6800 Radeon RX 6950 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year November 2020 May 2022
Code Name Navi 21 Navi 21
Memory 16384 MB 16384 MB
Core Speed 1700 MHz 1925 MHz
Memory Speed 2000 GB/s 2250 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 335 watts
Bandwidth 524288 MB/sec 589824 MB/sec
Texel Rate 408000 Mtexels/sec 616000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 163200 Mpixels/sec 246400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 3840 5120
Texture Mapping Units 240 320
Render Output Units 96 128
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 7 nm 7 nm
Transistors 26800 million 26800 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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