AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, Gaming Benchmarks & Specs

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.

Gaming benchmark results

BenchmarkResult1% LowVRAM UsedPowerData
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p · Ultra100 FPS806.75 GB318 WEstimated
Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p · Favor Quality110 FPS856.57 GB312 WEstimated
Alan Wake 2 1440p · High86 FPS719.49 GB308 WEstimated
Baldur's Gate 3 1440p · Ultra172 FPS1417 GB322 WEstimated
Black Desert Online 1440p · Remastered155 FPS995.29 GB318 WEstimated
Counter-Strike 2 1440p · Very High189 FPS1227.13 GB247 WEstimated
Diablo 4 1440p · Ultra153 FPS1179.84 GB315 WEstimated
Escape from Tarkov 1440p · Ultra120 FPS9814.72 GB265 WEstimated
The Witcher 3 1440p · Ultra99 FPS837.05 GB318 WEstimated

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT specifications

ArchitectureRDNA 2
Stream processors5,120
VRAM16GB GDDR6
Memory bus256-bit
Memory bandwidth576 GB/s
Boost clock2,310 MHz
TDP335 W
Process7nm
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Release date2022-05-10
Launch MSRP$1,099

Verdict, smooth 100+ FPS 1440p gaming across demanding AAA titles

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.

Relative performance: where the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT lands

100% = this card, Gaming headline metric (Avg FPS). #12 of 82 desktop cards in this vertical.

GPURelative%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

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The silicon

Transistors26,800 million
Process node7 nm
Fabricated byTSMC

Silicon figures from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Benchmarks on this page are our own. Compare every chip.

What this card can build

Whole-job timings, composed from our measured per-model results on this card.

WorkflowTimeEnergyBasis
Full codebase review22.7 minn/aestimate, 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).