ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition
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ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition and the ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition is based on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT and has 5376 texture shaders and 84 execution units.

ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition is based on AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, which has 5120 shaders and 80 execution units.
ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition GPU ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Based on AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
Navi 31 GPU Chip Navi 21 KXTX
RDNA 3 Architecture RDNA 2
84 Streaming Multiprocessors 80
5376 Shader 5120
192 Render Output Units 128
336 Texture Units 320
84 Raytracing Cores 80

Memory

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition has 20 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 800 GB/s.

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition can access 16 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 576 GB/s.

20 GB Memory Size 16 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
2.500 GHz Memory Clock 2.250 GHz
20.0 Gbps Memory Speed 18.0 Gbps
800 GB/s Memory bandwidth 576 GB/s
320 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition clocks in the base with up to 1.500 GHz. The base frequency of the ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition is 1.925 GHz.

1.500 GHz Base Clock 1.925 GHz
2.535 GHz Boost Clock 2.324 GHz
2.18 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 2.12 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition is 300 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 3 x 8-Pin connector.

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition has a TDP of 335 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

300 W TDP 335 W
-- TDP (up) --
97 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
3 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 110 mm Fan 1 3 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
36 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 ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition.

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC 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
3x DP v2.1 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
ASUS Aura Sync LED ASUS Aura Sync

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 / Encode AV1 Decode
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition is 353 mm long, 158 mm high and 73 mm wide.

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition is 320 mm long, 140 mm high and 58 mm wide.

353 mm Length 320 mm
158 mm Height 140 mm
73 mm Width 58 mm
4 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT OC Edition was released in Q4/2022 at a price of 899 $ (Reference).

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Edition was introduced in Q2/2022 at a price of 1,099 $ (Reference).

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Q4/2022 Release date Q2/2022
899 $ (Reference) Launch Price 1,099 $ (Reference)
5 nm Structure size 7 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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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

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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