Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT
vs
GALAX GeForce GTX 950 OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT has 5120 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.25 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 23.04 TFLOPS.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 950 OC has 768 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.30 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 2.01 TFLOPS.

GPU

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 2 architecture, which has 80 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GALAX GeForce GTX 950 OC is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 6 execution units.
Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT GPU GALAX GeForce GTX 950 OC
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
Navi 21 GPU Chip GM206-250-A1
RDNA 2 Architecture Maxwell 2.0
80 Streaming Multiprocessors 6
5120 Shader 768
128 Render Output Units 32
320 Texture Units 48
80 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT is equipped with a 16 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 950 OC has a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.653GHz.

16 GB Memory Size 2 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.653 GHz
16.0 Gbps Memory Speed 6.6 Gbps
512 GB/s Memory bandwidth 106 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT has a turbo clock of 2.250 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GALAX GeForce GTX 950 OC is 1.304 GHz.

1.825 GHz Base Clock 1.114 GHz
2.250 GHz Boost Clock 1.304 GHz
2.02 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT has 2 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 100 °C.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 950 OC is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 95 °C.

300 W TDP 90 W
345 W TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 950 OC is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 80 mm Fan 1 1 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 950 OC supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
2x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.2
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
1 USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The GALAX GeForce GTX 950 OC supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
Non addressable LED LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
Decode AV1 No
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 No

Dimensions

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT is 50 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GALAX GeForce GTX 950 OC is 50 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

267 mm Length 194 mm
120 mm Height 124 mm
50 mm Width 41 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT was released in Q2/2021.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 950 OC published in Q3/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.

21308-01-20G Part-no --
Q2/2021 Release date Q3/2015
999 $ (Reference) Launch Price 149 $
7 nm Structure size 28 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)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT
16 GB GDDR6
64 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT
16 GB GDDR6
75 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT
16 GB GDDR6
114 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)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT
16 GB GDDR6
38 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT
16 GB GDDR6
74 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT
16 GB GDDR6
126 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)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT
16 GB GDDR6
110 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT
16 GB GDDR6
200 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT
16 GB GDDR6
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

Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT
16 GB GDDR6
235478

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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