Averages 132 FPS at 1440p over our 9-game suite, anchored estimate · smooth 100+ FPS 1440p gaming across demanding AAA titles
132 Avg FPS Includes estimates
This card is still waiting on bench time. Until it gets there the figures are anchored estimates, interpolated from cards we measured on the same suite. Across our 9-game suite at 1440p, AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT averages 132 FPS. The ceiling is Counter-Strike 2 at 189 FPS; the floor is Alan Wake 2 at 86 FPS, a 2.2x spread that tells you how engine-dependent this class of card is. In practical terms that means smooth 100+ FPS 1440p gaming across demanding AAA titles. Under load we logged a peak of 322W against the 335W rating.
| Benchmark | Result | 1% Low | VRAM Used | Power | Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyberpunk 2077 1440p · Ultra | 100 FPS | 80 | 6.75 GB | 318 W | Estimated |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p · Favor Quality | 110 FPS | 85 | 6.57 GB | 312 W | Estimated |
| Alan Wake 2 1440p · High | 86 FPS | 71 | 9.49 GB | 308 W | Estimated |
| Baldur's Gate 3 1440p · Ultra | 172 FPS | 141 | 7 GB | 322 W | Estimated |
| Black Desert Online 1440p · Remastered | 155 FPS | 99 | 5.29 GB | 318 W | Estimated |
| Counter-Strike 2 1440p · Very High | 189 FPS | 122 | 7.13 GB | 247 W | Estimated |
| Diablo 4 1440p · Ultra | 153 FPS | 117 | 9.84 GB | 315 W | Estimated |
| Escape from Tarkov 1440p · Ultra | 120 FPS | 98 | 14.72 GB | 265 W | Estimated |
| The Witcher 3 1440p · Ultra | 99 FPS | 83 | 7.05 GB | 318 W | Estimated |
| Architecture | RDNA 2 |
| Stream processors | 5,120 |
| VRAM | 16GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 256-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 576 GB/s |
| Boost clock | 2,310 MHz |
| TDP | 335 W |
| Process | 7nm |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Release date | 2022-05-10 |
| Launch MSRP | $1,099 |
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT averages 132 FPS at 1440p on our suite. This card is still waiting on bench time. Until it gets there the figures are anchored estimates, interpolated from cards we measured on the same suite.
100% = this card, Gaming headline metric (Avg FPS). #12 of 82 desktop cards in this vertical.
| GPU | Relative | % | Avg FPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti | 108% | 143 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super | 107% | 141 | |
| GeForce RTX 5070 Ti | 106% | 140 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT | 104% | 137 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT | 100% | 132 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | 100% | 132 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE | 99% | 131 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti | 98% | 130 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti | 98% | 130 |
Same card, other workloads: AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT AI benchmarks, LLM tokens/sec, image generation & VRAM fit
| Transistors | 26,800 million |
| Process node | 7 nm |
| Fabricated by | TSMC |
Silicon figures from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Benchmarks on this page are our own. Compare every chip.
Whole-job timings, composed from our measured per-model results on this card.
| Workflow | Time | Energy | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full codebase review | 22.7 min | n/a | estimate, 0 of 1 stage measured |
Can't run: 60-second AI short film (needs Qwen3 32B), 60-second AI short film, narrated (needs Qwen3 32B), 10 short social clips (needs Qwen3 32B), 40-product photo shoot (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), 6-panel comic page (needs Qwen3 32B), 20 long-form articles (needs Llama 3.3 70B), Character sheet, 12 poses (needs FLUX.1 dev), 100-photo restoration batch (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), 24-frame storyboard (needs Qwen3 32B), 100-photo restore and enlarge (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev).