AMD Radeon™ RX 6950 XT gddr6 Graphics Card

Product Information

We're also curious whether AMD will add tensor core-like hardware to RDNA 3 when that arrives, given that Intel has that on Arc, and AMD has similar hardware on its data center MI200 series "Aldebaran" GPU. Intel's XeSS will support the matrix engines on Arc and will use DP4a (INT8) hardware on non-Intel GPUs as far as we're aware, but maybe AMD and Intel could kiss and make up and try to make XeSS a truly open competitor to DLSS. Stranger things have happened! If you can find an RX 6950 XT for the same price as an RTX 4070, it's worth considering, but that's not a decisive win. And in fact, since you'll also use about 100–150 watts more power while gaming with the RX 6950 XT, depending on how much you play games, the ongoing cost of owning the RX 6950 XT could also be higher. Gaming PCs Liquid Series® PCs Video Editing PCs Pro Audio Computers Professional Workstations Desktop PCs The RX 6950 XT has good ray tracing benchmarks which help to boost gaming performance. However, some reportssay its capabilities are inferior compared to other cards like the RTX 4070. Are AMD GPUs good 2023? Another benefit is that the 3D V-cache technology can also help to reduce power consumption by reducing the number of times the GPU has to access the main system memory, which can be power-hungry.

The 3D V-cache technology from AMD is a feature that is designed to improve the performance of gaming and other demanding applications. The technology works by creating a large, high-speed cache that is optimized for 3D rendering and other GPU-intensive tasks. The RX 6950 XT is a graphics card that doesn’t need to exist. It’s a lot like Nvidia’s 12GB RTX 3080— a refresh meant to push prices up without offering any clear performance improvements. AMD already achieved a graphics card that can beat the RTX 3090, and it’s the RX 6900 XT, not this late-gen refresh. Are there any alternatives?As such, it is a great option for gamers out there who can afford a premium card, but aren't actually giant, human-shaped, walking piles of money – it least it would be, if RDNA 3 wasn't right around the corner. AMD's next-gen graphics cards are likely to make some major advances in terms of ray tracing and hardware-assisted upscaling tech that should blow the current generation of AMD cards out of the water, so buying anything premium from this generation right now is iffy at best. Overall, roughly three times as many games support DLSS 2 as FSR 2 — and note that all of the DXR games and six of the nine rasterization games in our test suite support DLSS, while FSR2 is only supported in two of the DXR games and three of the rasterization games. In each of those games Nvidia's RTX 4070 will get about a 30–50 percent boost to performance, using Quality mode upscaling. That means a game will typically run significantly faster than AMD's RX 6950 XT if a game only supports DLSS and not FSR2

We should note though, there's still some market manipulation going with GPUs when multiple products are sharing the same silicon. As we noted in the cost per frame analysis, the more affordable RX 6800 is meant to cost 21% more than the 6700 XT, while the 6800 XT is meant to cost 35% more. However, the RX 6800 currently costs 55% more, while the 6800 XT costs 76% more. The simple explanation is that the 6800 and 6900 series share the same silicon. The Radeon RX 6950 XT does well against the RTX 3090 Ti at a dramatically lower price point, so in that sense it does a great job and is an excellent competitor. It's also not bad in terms of value next to the original 6900 XT.

Clock Speeds

This is important when pairing with the RX 6950 XT, as the card will be used for demanding tasks. So, providing a large number of cores will ensure smooth performance. Increasing the resolution to 1440p reduces how CPU bound The Outer Worlds testing is and now we're seeing an 8% performance increase from the 6900 XT to the 6950 XT. The RTX 3090 Ti is 10% faster than the 6950 XT, though right now that's a GPU over 80% more expensive.