AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT is based on the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT and has 5120 texture shaders and 80 execution units.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, which has 5888 shaders and 46 execution units.
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
Navi 21 KXTX GPU Chip AD104-250-A1
RDNA 2 Architecture Ada Lovelace
80 Streaming Multiprocessors 46
5120 Shader 5888
128 Render Output Units 64
320 Texture Units 184
80 Raytracing Cores 46

Memory

The AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT has 16 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 576 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition can access 12 GB GDDR6X graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 504 GB/s.

16 GB Memory Size 12 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6X
2.250 GHz Memory Clock 1.313 GHz
18.0 Gbps Memory Speed 21.0 Gbps
576 GB/s Memory bandwidth 504 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT clocks in the base with up to 1.890 GHz. The base frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition is 1.920 GHz.

1.890 GHz Base Clock 1.920 GHz
2.310 GHz Boost Clock 2.475 GHz
2.10 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT is 335 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition has a TDP of 200 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 16-Pin PCIe power connectors.

335 W TDP 200 W
-- TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 90 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 16-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT has a total of 0 Axial fans.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
-- Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
2x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
1 USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 Decode
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT is -- long, -- high and -- wide.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition is 244 mm long, 112 mm high and -- wide.

-- Length 244 mm
-- Height 112 mm
-- Width --
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT was released in Q2/2022 at a price of 1,099 $ (Reference).

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition was introduced in Q2/2023 at a price of 599 $.

-- Part-no --
Q2/2022 Release date Q2/2023
1,099 $ (Reference) Launch Price 599 $
7 nm Structure size 5 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
16 GB GDDR6
64 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition
12 GB GDDR6X
54 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
16 GB GDDR6
75 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition
12 GB GDDR6X
93 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
16 GB GDDR6
113 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition
12 GB GDDR6X
130 fps (avg)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
16 GB GDDR6
40 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition
12 GB GDDR6X
36 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
16 GB GDDR6
76 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition
12 GB GDDR6X
72 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
16 GB GDDR6
131 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition
12 GB GDDR6X
124 fps (avg)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
16 GB GDDR6
120 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition
12 GB GDDR6X
98 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
16 GB GDDR6
199 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition
12 GB GDDR6X
172 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
16 GB GDDR6
199 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition
12 GB GDDR6X
200 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
16 GB GDDR6
238438

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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