Radeon RX 6950 XT vs RX Vega 20

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance rankingnot rated14
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data22.39
Architectureno dataNavi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code nameno dataNavi
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data10 May 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,099
Current price$429 $961 (0.9x MSRP)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data5120
Core clock speedno data1925 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2324 MHz
Number of transistorsno data26,800 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data335 Watt
Texture fill rateno data743.7

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data18000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data576.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMIno data+

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkanno data1.3

Pros & cons summary


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