AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
Reasons To Buy
- ✓ Great non-ray tracing performance
- ✓ Affordable compared to Nvidia cards
- ✓ Reasonably efficient
Reasons To Avoid
- ✗ AMD RDNA 3 and Nvidia Ada are coming
- ✗ Not a major upgrade from an RX 6900 XT
- ✗ Sapphire card needs lots of room
Expert Reviews
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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT Review: The Emperor's New GDDR6 —Sapphire RX 6950 XT Nitro+ Pure tested
By Tom's Hardware · 2 years, 11 months ago
Specifications
| 4K H264 Decode | ✓ |
| 4K H264 Encode | ✓ |
| AMD Infinity Cache Technology | 128 |
| AV1 Decode | ✓ |
| Base Frequency |
1890.0 |
| Board Type |
Desktop |
| Boost Frequency |
2310.0 |
| Compute Units |
80 |
| Effective Memory Bandwidth | 1794.0 |
| Game Frequency | 2100.0 |
| H265/HEVC Decode | ✓ |
| H265/HEVC Encode | ✓ |
| HDMI™ 4K Support | ✓ |
| Max Memory Size | 16 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 576 |
| Memory Interface | 256_bit |
| Memory Speed |
18.0 |
| Memory Type |
GDDR6 |
| Minimum PSU Recommendation | 850 |
| OS Support |
Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition Ubuntu x86 64-Bit Linux x86 64-Bit |
| Peak Half Precision Compute Performance | 47310.0 |
| Peak Pixel Fill-Rate | 295.7 |
| Peak Single Precision Compute Performance | 23650.0 |
| Peak Texture Fill-Rate | 739.2 |
| ROPs | 128 |
| Ray Accelerators | 80 |
| Stream Processors |
5120 |
| Supported Technologies |
AMD Software Adrenalin Edition AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution AMD Noise Suppression AMD Radeon™ Super Resolution AMD Smart Access Memory VSR(4K) AMD Privacy View AMD Radeon™ Boost AMD Radeon™ Anti-Lag AMD Radeon™ Image Sharpening AMD Enhanced Sync Technology AMD FreeSync™ Technology AMD Radeon™ Chill TrueAudio Next The Vulkan® API AMD Mantle API |
| Texture Units |
320 |
| Transistor Count | 26800 |
| Typical Board Power (Desktop) | 335 W |