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Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

The Radeon R9 295X2 uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1018 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this specific card. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1925 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 2250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 5120 SPUs, 320 TAUs, and 128 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6950 XT 335 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2 500 Watts
Difference: 165 Watts (49%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 295X2, in theory, should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon RX 6950 XT overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2 640000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6950 XT 589824 MB/sec
Difference: 50176 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is much (about 72%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 295X2. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT 616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 295X2 358336 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 257664 (72%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be much (more or less 89%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R9 295X2, and also able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT 246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 295X2 130304 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 116096 (89%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon R9 295X2 Radeon RX 6950 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year April 2014 May 2022
Code Name Vesuvius Navi 21
Memory 4096 MB (x2) 16384 MB
Core Speed 1018 MHz (x2) 1925 MHz
Memory Speed 5000 MHz (x2) 4500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 500 watts 335 watts
Bandwidth 640000 MB/sec 589824 MB/sec
Texel Rate 358336 Mtexels/sec 616000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 130304 Mpixels/sec 246400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2816 (x2) 5120
Texture Mapping Units 176 (x2) 320
Render Output Units 64 (x2) 128
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 512-bit (x2) 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 6200 million 26800 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon R9 295X2

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Radeon RX 6950 XT

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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