PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB
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PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB Benchmark and Specs

Here you will find all technical data as well as various benchmarks of the PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB. Up to 4 screens with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 can be operated with this graphics card. The maximum turbo clock of the PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB is 2.310 GHz, so the graphics card achieves an FP32 computing power of 23.65 TFLOPS.
FP32
23.65TFLOPS
Boost Clock
2.31GHz
Memory
16GB GDDR6
TDP
335 W

Technical details

GPU

The PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB is equipped with 80 execution and 5120 shader units. With single precision, a theoretical FP32 computing power of 23.65 TFLOPS is achieved.

GPU Chip
Navi 21 KXTX (RDNA 2)
Streaming Multiprocessors
80
Shader
5120
Render Output Units
128
Texture Units
320
Raytracing Cores
80

Memory

The PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB has a 256 bit wide memory interface, with which a memory bandwidth of 576 GB/s is achieved. In total, 16 GB GDDR6 graphics memory is available for the graphics card.

Memory Size
16 GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
Memory Clock
2.250 GHz
Memory Speed
18.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
576 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit

Clock Speeds

The manufacturer specifies the memory clock of the PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB with 1.925 GHz (base clock) or with 2.310 GHz (turbo clock). If overclocking is supported (see below), the clock rate can be increased even further.

Base Clock
1.925 GHz+2 %
Boost Clock
2.310 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
2.100 GHz
Overclocking
Yes

Thermal Design

The PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB has 2 x 8-Pin plugs, which supply the graphics card with energy. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

TDP
335 W (Reference)
Tjunction max
100 °C
PCIe-Power
2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB is equipped with 3 Axial main fans, which are used to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.

Fan-Type
Axial
Fan 1
3 x 80 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB / Silent

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB, whereby the backward-compatible HDCP copy protection is supported in the 2.3 version.

Max. Displays
4
HDCP
2.3
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.1
DisplayPort
2x DP 2.1
USB-C
1

Featureset

The PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels and the DirectX standard version 12_2 (Ultimate).

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

Supported Video Codecs

Here is a list of which video codecs can be decoded / encoded by the PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB in hardware in order to minimize the processor load.

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

Dimensions

The dimensions of the PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB are 280 mm in length, 135 mm in height and 50 mm in width. Thus 3 PCIe-Slots are needed in a case.

Length
280 mm
Height
135 mm
Width
50 mm
Width (Slots)
3 PCIe-Slots
SFF-Ready
No

Additional data

The PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB is manufactured in a structure width of 7 nm and has a PCIe 4.0 x 16 lanes interface. The graphics card was released in Q2/2023.

GPU Interface
PCIe 4.0 x 16
Release date
Q2/2023
Launch Price
1,099 $ (Reference)
Structure size
7 nm
Part-no
AXRX 6950XT 16GBD6-M2DHC
Documents
data sheet
PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB
1.925 GHz · 16 GB · 335 W TDP
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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 Rank 933 / 5,633

  1. PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GBPowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB16 GB GDDR6
    10,386
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAverage of gpu group
    10,638

Port Royal (Raytracing) Rank 1,521 / 4,176

  1. PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GBPowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB16 GB GDDR6
    10,412
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAverage of gpu group
    10,665

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing) Rank 1,497 / 3,536

  1. PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GBPowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB16 GB GDDR6
    3,927
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAverage of gpu group
    4,022

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) Rank 660 / 3,187

  1. PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GBPowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB16 GB GDDR6
    64 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAverage of gpu group
    65 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p) Rank 979 / 3,190

  1. PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GBPowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB16 GB GDDR6
    75 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAverage of gpu group
    76 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p) Rank 912 / 3,222

  1. PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GBPowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB16 GB GDDR6
    114 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAverage of gpu group
    115 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) Rank 797 / 2,190

  1. PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GBPowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB16 GB GDDR6
    40 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAverage of gpu group
    40 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p) Rank 897 / 2,709

  1. PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GBPowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB16 GB GDDR6
    76 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAverage of gpu group
    76 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p) Rank 748 / 2,843

  1. PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GBPowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB16 GB GDDR6
    132 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAverage of gpu group
    132 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) Rank 498 / 4,595

  1. PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GBPowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB16 GB GDDR6
    121 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAverage of gpu group
    122 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p) Rank 447 / 4,594

  1. PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GBPowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB16 GB GDDR6
    200 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAverage of gpu group
    200 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p) Rank 1,015 / 4,601

  1. PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GBPowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB16 GB GDDR6
    200 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAverage of gpu group
    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 Rank 964 / 5,255

  1. PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GBPowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB16 GB GDDR6
    171,649
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAverage of gpu group
    171,649

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan Rank 623 / 5,233

  1. PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GBPowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB16 GB GDDR6
    176,425
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAverage of gpu group
    176,425

Geekbench 6 - Metal Rank 55 / 750

  1. PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GBPowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB16 GB GDDR6
    239,858
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAverage of gpu group
    239,858

MonkeyBench 2026.3 · browser GPU test

Average of 4 public MonkeyBench results (WebGPU) for the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT.

608GPU points (Ø)
Rank 28 / 445 · in the MonkeyBench GPU ranking

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