AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB
The AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT is based on the RDNA 2.0 7nm architecture with 5120 Stream Processors. It has a base clock of 1860 MHz, a game clock of 2100 MHz and a boost clock of 2310 MHz. There are 26.8 billion transistors, 320 texture mapping units and 128 ROPs.
The AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16GB is a desktop GPU from the Radeon RX 6000 series using a die size of 520 mm². Its codename is Navi 21 and the fabrication process is TSMC 7nm. For cores there are 80 ray tracing cores as well as 80 compute units. The amount of L2 cache comes in at 4MB additionally there is also 128MB of infinity cache.
The AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT can handle a variety of heavy duty tasks and gaming thanks to its 16GB of GDDR6 memory which comes as standard. The memory is running at an effective memory clock of 18000 MHz, it has an interface width of 256 bit and a bandwidth of 576 GB/s.
The theoretical performance is based on the clock speed, cores and the floating point operations per clock cycle. The half precision FP16 performance comes in at 47.3088 TFLOPS, single precision FP32 performance is 23.6544 TFLOPS and 1.4784 TFLOPS is the double precision FP64 performance. The floating point operations per clock cycle come in at 4 for half precision FP16, for single precision it comes in at 2 and 1/8 is for double precision FP64. The texture fillrate is 739.2 GT/s and the pixel fillrate is 295.68 GP/s.
This graphics card has AMD’s FreeSync and is compatible with DirectX version 12. It features OpenCL 2.1, OpenGL 4.6 and shader model 6.7. The AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT is not crossfire compatible but it is VR ready. Other technologies include AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition, AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution, AMD Link, 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 Radeon Chill, TrueAudio Next, The Vulkan API and AMD Mantle API.
The maximum resolution of this graphics card is 7680×4320. For display output options there is Display Port 1.4a and HDMI 2.1. There is no USB-c, DVI or VGA. The interface of this graphics card is PCIe 4.0 ×16. It requires 2×8 pin power connectors from your PSU as it draws a maximum of 335W. The recommended power supply is therefore at least 850W.
The maximum HDMI resolution is 7680×4320 @ 60Hz and the maximum display port resolution is 7680×4320 @ 120Hz.
For dimensions the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT is a larger graphics card coming in at 10.5″ (26.7 cm) by 4.72″ (12 cm) and it is a 2.5 slot card. At release, on the 10th May 2022 this card retailed for $1099 USD. View more RX 6950 XT variants here.
