AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

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

12GB GDDR7

Memory

6144

Cores

672 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 5070

$519.99 Mar 2025 View Details

$549.99

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

16GB GDDR6 335W $749.99 May 2022

Radeon RX 6950 XT

$1099 • May 2022

GeForce RTX 5070

$549 • Mar 2025

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

12GB GDDR7 250W $519.99 Mar 2025

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
Memory Size	16 GB	12 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR7
TDP	335 W	250 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	2310 MHz	2512 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	576 GB/s	672 GB/s
Process Size	7nm	5nm
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Blackwell 2.0
Shading Units	5120	6144
RT Cores	80	48
TMUs	320	192
ROPs	128	80
Memory Bus	256-bit	192-bit
Memory Clock	2250 MHz	1750 MHz
Pixel Rate	295.7 GPixel/s	201 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	576 GTexel/s	482.3 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	23.65 GFLOPS	30.87 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	4.00 MB	48.00 MB
Die Size	520 mm²	263 mm²
Transistors	26800 Million	31100 Million
Required PSU	700 W	600 W
Power Connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 16-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 5.0 x16
DirectX	12.2	12.2
Vulkan	1.3	1.4
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

23103 (+10%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

189857

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

190967 (+1%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

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

FPS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

28129

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

29107 (+3%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Game Benchmarks Comparison (246 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 5070 (+8%)

AVG 91 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5070 (+11%)

AVG 71 FPS

MIN 62 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 64 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5070 (+2%)

AVG 42 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5070 (+41%)

AVG 69 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5070 (+41%)

AVG 48 FPS

MIN 45 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5070 (+35%)

AVG 27 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 20 FPS

MIN 18 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 5070 (+94%)

AVG 221 FPS

MIN 204 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 114 FPS

MIN 105 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 5070 (+90%)

AVG 177 FPS

MIN 172 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 83 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

| dlss 4 quality

| Frame Gen

GeForce RTX 5070 (+117%)

AVG 130 FPS

MIN 122 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 5070 (+27%)

AVG 80 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5070 (+30%)

AVG 57 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5070 (+30%)

AVG 30 FPS

MIN 23 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 5070 (+1%)

AVG 136 FPS

MIN 110 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 134 FPS

MIN 99 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5070 (+5%)

AVG 100 FPS

MIN 87 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 95 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 5070 (+12%)

AVG 56 FPS

MIN 49 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 5070 (+13%)

AVG 71 FPS

MIN 62 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5070 (+8%)

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 45 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+0%)

AVG 30 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

GeForce RTX 5070 (+0%)

AVG 30 FPS

MIN 23 FPS

Winner

Loser

CODE VEIN II DEMO

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

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 5070 (+12%)

AVG 101 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 90 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 5070 (+8%)

AVG 66 FPS

MIN 59 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 61 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: vDemo

GeForce RTX 5070 (+6%)

AVG 33 FPS

MIN 29 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 5070 (+23%)

AVG 80 FPS

MIN 68 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 65 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce RTX 5070 (+20%)

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce RTX 5070 (+21%)

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Wins!

Based on 246 benchmarks across 71 games

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

+14.6%

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 5070