Radeon RX 6950 XT
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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.
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
Performance breakdown
FPS Across Resolutions
Average FPS across all PC games
Cost per frame
Launch MSRP ($1099) ÷ average FPS — lower is better.
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.
- Plays any modern game on ultra
- Runs cooler than last gen
- Handles ray tracing fine
- Great for high refresh 4K
- High power draw under load
- No AV1 hardware encoding
- Ray tracing performance lags behind
Supported technologies
Full specifications
- CUDA Cores
- 5,120
- RT Cores
- 80
- TMUs
- 320
- ROPs
- 128
- L2 cache
- 4 MB
- Size
- 16 GB
- Type
- GDDR6
- Bus width
- 256-bit
- Bandwidth
- 576 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 2250 MHz
- 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
- TDP
- 335W
- Suggested PSU
- 650W
- Power connectors
- 2x 8-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 4.0 x16
- Length
- 267 mm
- Slot width
- 3-slot
- 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
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.
Its place in the overall top
267 votes