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Radeon RX 6950 XT vs Radeon RX Vega 64

Intro

The Radeon RX 6950 XT uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1925 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a speed of 2250 MHz on this particular card. It features 5120 SPUs along with 320 TAUs and 128 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon RX Vega 64, which has a core clock speed of 1247 MHz and a HBM2 memory frequency of 1890 MHz. It also uses a 2048-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is made up of 4096 SPUs, 256 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX Vega 64 295 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT 335 Watts
Difference: 40 Watts (14%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should be just a bit faster than the Radeon RX Vega 64 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT 589824 MB/sec
Radeon RX Vega 64 495411 MB/sec
Difference: 94413 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be much (approximately 93%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX Vega 64. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT 616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 64 319232 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 296768 (93%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be a lot (about 209%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon RX Vega 64, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT 246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 64 79808 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 166592 (209%)

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 6950 XT Radeon RX Vega 64
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year May 2022 August 2017
Code Name Navi 21 Vega 10 XT
Memory 16384 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1925 MHz 1247 MHz
Memory Speed 2250 GB/s 1890 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 335 watts 295 watts
Bandwidth 589824 MB/sec 495411 MB/sec
Texel Rate 616000 Mtexels/sec 319232 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 246400 Mpixels/sec 79808 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 5120 4096
Texture Mapping Units 320 256
Render Output Units 128 64
Bus Type GDDR6 HBM2
Bus Width 256-bit 2048-bit
Fab Process 7 nm 14 nm
Transistors 26800 million 12500 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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