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GeForce RTX 4080 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

The GeForce RTX 4080 comes with a clock speed of 2205 MHz and a GDDR6X memory frequency of 1400 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 4 nm design. It is made up of 9728 SPUs, 304 Texture Address Units, and 112 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1925 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 2250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 5120 SPUs, 320 TAUs, and 128 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 4080 320 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT 335 Watts
Difference: 15 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 4080 should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon RX 6950 XT overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4080 734003 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6950 XT 589824 MB/sec
Difference: 144179 (24%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 4080 is just a bit (about 9%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 6950 XT. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4080 670320 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 6950 XT 616000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 54320 (9%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 4080 is superior to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4080 246960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 6950 XT 246400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 560 (0%)

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 GeForce RTX 4080 Radeon RX 6950 XT
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2022 May 2022
Code Name AD103-300-A1 Navi 21
Memory 16384 MB 16384 MB
Core Speed 2205 MHz 1925 MHz
Memory Speed 1400 GB/s 2250 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 320 watts 335 watts
Bandwidth 734003 MB/sec 589824 MB/sec
Texel Rate 670320 Mtexels/sec 616000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 246960 Mpixels/sec 246400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 9728 5120
Texture Mapping Units 304 320
Render Output Units 112 128
Bus Type GDDR6X GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 4 nm 7 nm
Transistors 45900 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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce RTX 4080

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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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