AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

amd

Brand

16GB GDDR6

Memory

5120

Cores

576 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX 6950 XT

$749.99 May 2022 View Details

$749.99

nvidia

Brand

16GB GDDR6X

Memory

9728

Cores

716.8 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 4080

$959.00 Sep 2022 View Details

$959.00

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

16GB GDDR6 335W $749.99 May 2022

Radeon RX 6950 XT

$1099 • May 2022

GeForce RTX 4080

$1199 • Sep 2022

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

16GB GDDR6X 320W $959.00 Sep 2022

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080
Memory Size	16 GB	16 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR6X
TDP	335 W	320 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	2310 MHz	2505 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	576 GB/s	716.8 GB/s
Process Size	7nm	5nm
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Ada Lovelace
Shading Units	5120	9728
RT Cores	80	76
TMUs	320	304
ROPs	128	112
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	2250 MHz	1400 MHz
Pixel Rate	295.7 GPixel/s	280.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	576 GTexel/s	716.8 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	23.65 GFLOPS	48.74 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	4.00 MB	64.00 MB
Die Size	520 mm²	379 mm²
Transistors	26800 Million	45900 Million
Required PSU	700 W	700 W
Power Connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 16-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX	12.2	12.2
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

21011

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

30216 (+44%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

189857

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

217712 (+15%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

305.6 FPS

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

320.9 FPS (+5%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

28129

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

34519 (+23%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Game Benchmarks Comparison (569 benchmarks)

DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH Background

DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH

8 2026 • Action, Adventure • KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS, Nixxes Software

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4080 (+33%)

AVG 112 FPS

MIN 97 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4080 (+39%)

AVG 89 FPS

MIN 80 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 64 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4080 (+34%)

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 47 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4080 (+71%)

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4080 (+76%)

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4080 (+80%)

AVG 36 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 20 FPS

MIN 18 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 4080 (+49%)

AVG 170 FPS

MIN 153 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 114 FPS

MIN 105 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 4080 (+48%)

AVG 138 FPS

MIN 129 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 83 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 4080 (+62%)

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 89 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

Winner

Loser

Crimson Desert

7.5 2026 • Action, Adventure • Pearl Abyss

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4080 (+57%)

AVG 99 FPS

MIN 81 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4080 (+64%)

AVG 72 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4080 (+70%)

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 23 FPS

MIN 18 FPS

Winner

Loser

Resident Evil Requiem

8.7 2026 • Action, Adventure • CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4080 (+21%)

AVG 162 FPS

MIN 134 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 134 FPS

MIN 99 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4080 (+28%)

AVG 122 FPS

MIN 105 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 95 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4080 (+44%)

AVG 72 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 50 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

Winner

Loser

Styx: Blades of Greed

7.2 2026 • Action, Adventure • Cyanide Studio

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4080 (+48%)

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 82 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4080 (+45%)

AVG 71 FPS

MIN 59 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4080 (+40%)

AVG 42 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 30 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

Winner

Loser

CODE VEIN II DEMO

7.8 2026 • Action, RPG • Bandai Namco Studios Inc.

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 4080 (+36%)

AVG 122 FPS

MIN 106 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 90 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 4080 (+43%)

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 74 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 61 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 4080 (+42%)

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 38 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

Winner

Loser

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora From The Ashes

7.6 2025 • Action, Adventure • Massive Entertainment – A Ubisoft Studio, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Shanghai, Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Reflections

1080p

| high

GeForce RTX 4080 (+65%)

AVG 107 FPS

MIN 91 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 65 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce RTX 4080 (+65%)

AVG 76 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce RTX 4080 (+69%)

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 42 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Wins!

Based on 569 benchmarks across 162 games

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

+37.6%

107

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 4080