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AMDUpper mid-rangeRX 6000 Series

Radeon RX 6950 XT

3.5 · 267 votes
Best for 1440p high-refresh gaming

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VRAM
16 GB
CUDA
5,120
FP32
23.8 TF
Bandwidth
576 GB/s
TDP
335W
Boost
2324 MHz
Strengths at a Glance

How it stacks up to the flagship

Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.

FP32 compute23.8 TFLOPS23%
vs RTX 5090 D: 104.8 TFLOPS
Memory bandwidth576 GB/s32%
vs RTX 5090 D: 1790 GB/s
VRAM capacity16 GB50%
vs RTX 5090 D: 32 GB
Shading units5,12024%
vs RTX 5090 D: 21,760
Power efficiency23/10040%
vs RTX 5090 D: 58/100
Synthetic Benchmarks

Estimated benchmark results

Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.

3DMark Time Spy24,480pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 36,000 pts
3DMark Port Royal (RT)10,440pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 18,000 pts
Blender (samples/min)3,172spm
vs RTX 5090 D: 5,200 spm
Geekbench Compute127,200pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 240,000 pts

Performance breakdown

Gaming68
Ray tracing58
AI / Compute53
Creator / 3D61
Power efficiency23
Real-World Gaming

FPS Across Resolutions

1080p · Ultra preset1440p · Ultra preset4K · Ultra preset
Cyberpunk 2077avg 84 fps
1080p
118
1440p
90
4K
45
Counter-Strike 2avg 209 fps
1080p
308
1440p
229
4K
90
Fortniteavg 180 fps
1080p
315
1440p
150
4K
76
Battlefield 5avg 154 fps
1080p
170
1440p
170
4K
121
Far Cry 5avg 146 fps
1080p
159
1440p
158
4K
120
Valorantavg 380 fps
1080p
364
1440p
461
4K
315

Average FPS across all PC games

1080p
203fps
1440p
142fps
4K
89fps

Cost per frame

Launch MSRP ($1099) ÷ average FPS — lower is better.

1080p
$4.72
1440p
$7.85
4K
$13.75
Community Feedback

What Owners Say

Owners love the raw 1440p and 4K gaming punch for the price. The main gripe is it runs hot and guzzles power, needing a beefy PSU.

Pros
  • Plays any modern game on ultra
  • Runs cooler than last gen
  • Handles ray tracing fine
  • Great for high refresh 4K
Cons
  • High power draw under load
  • No AV1 hardware encoding
  • Ray tracing performance lags behind

Supported technologies

Ray TracingAV1 Encode

Full specifications

Graphics processor
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
Process node
7 nm
Transistors
26.8 B
Compute Units
80
Release date
2022
Launch price
$1099
Core configuration
CUDA Cores
5,120
RT Cores
80
TMUs
320
ROPs
128
L2 cache
4 MB
Memory
Size
16 GB
Type
GDDR6
Bus width
256-bit
Bandwidth
576 GB/s
Memory clock
2250 MHz
Clocks & throughput
Base clock
1925 MHz
Boost clock
2324 MHz
FP32 (float)
23.8 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.8 TFLOPS
Pixel rate
297 GPixel/s
Texture rate
743.7 GTexel/s
Board & power
TDP
335W
Suggested PSU
650W
Power connectors
2x 8-pin
Bus interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Length
267 mm
Slot width
3-slot
Display & outputs
Max resolution
7680×4320
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

API and SDK support

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model
6.5
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
Verdict

Our verdict on the RX 6950 XT

This is AMD's last-gen flagship GPU, a hot and power-hungry card that still trades blows with current mid-range options.

Get it if you want a fast, reliable 4K card with plenty of video memory for today’s games without paying the current-gen tax. Skip it if you care about power efficiency or ray tracing, because it runs hot and falls behind newer options there.

Buy it if…

  • You want a high-end last-gen card for less than the latest models.
  • You need a lot of VRAM for modded games or 4K textures.
  • You have a big power supply and don't care about heat output.
3.5

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