Average Bench: 199% (13th of 714)

Based on 5,274 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 73A5 Model: AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Whilst the drought in the GPU market continues, street prices for AMD cards are around 50% lower than comparable (based on headline average fps figures) Nvidia cards. Many experienced users simply have no interest in buying AMD cards, regardless of price. The combined market share for all of AMD’s RX 5000 and 6000 GPUs amongst PC gamers (Steam stats) is just 2.12% whilst Nvidia’s RTX 2060 alone accounts for 5.03%. AMD’s Neanderthal marketing tactics seem to have come back to haunt them. Their brazen domination of social media platforms including youtube and reddit resulted in millions of users purchasing sub standard products. Be wary of sponsored reviews with cherry picked games that showcase the wins and ignore the losses. Experienced gamers know all too well that headline average fps are worthless when they are accompanied with stutters, random crashes, excessive noise and a limited feature set. [May '22 GPUPro]

Outstanding average bench

The AMD RX 6950-XT averaged 98.6% higher than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the AMD RX 6950-XT near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 249fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 336fps

Above average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD RX 6950-XT is 30.5%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the AMD RX 6950-XT performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 263fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 526fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 5,274 samples)
Min Avg Max
225 Lighting 249 268
244 Reflection 263 281
468 Parallax 526 590
203% 346 fps
Min Avg Max
373 MRender 410 450
201 Gravity 215 234
309 Splatting 336 367
262% 320 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
ASRock(1849 5231) ≥ 4GB
Ram: 16GB, Driver: 24.3.1
Lighting 253
Reflection 272
Parallax 510
206% 345 fps
MRender 424
Gravity 230
Splatting 363
278% 339 fps
AMD(1002 0E3A) ≥ 4GB
Ram: 16GB, Driver: 24.3.1
Lighting 248
Reflection 263
Parallax 534
202% 348 fps
MRender 413
Gravity 216
Splatting 340
264% 323 fps
AMD(1002 0E3A) ≥ 4GB
Ram: 16GB, Driver: 24.3.1
Lighting 244
Reflection 259
Parallax 500
199% 335 fps
MRender 401
Gravity 215
Splatting 336
260% 317 fps
ASRock(1849 5230) ≥ 4GB
Ram: 16GB, Driver: 24.3.1
Lighting 243
Reflection 248
Parallax 499
198% 330 fps
MRender 403
Gravity 209
Splatting 334
258% 315 fps
XFX(1EAE 6950) ≥ 4GB
Ram: 16GB, Driver: 24.3.1
Lighting 161
Reflection 159
Parallax 580
131% 300 fps
MRender 156
Gravity 207
Splatting 329
200% 231 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
XFX(1EAE 6950) 42% 199% ± 11%
AMD(1002 0E3A) 31% 196% ± 7%
PowerColor(148C 2420) 8% 202% ± 10%
ASRock(1849 5238) 7% 196% ± 7%
MSI(1462 3955) 4% 205% ± 6%
ASRock(1849 5230) 3% 202% ± 5%
Sapphire(1DA2 441D) 2% 197% ± 2%
Sapphire(1DA2 440D) 2% 207% ± 0%
Asus(1043 0504) 1% 203% ± 0%
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Desktop 103%
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Workstation 170%
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Motherboard: MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK (MS-7C91) - $140

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 Comments

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5 days ago.

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AMD are great at selling junk. They pee in the well with fake comments, glorified cheerleaders on youtube and paid magazine reviews. My POS PC still crashes randomly. Everybody needs to call the rats out instead of letting them get away with it.—May '22

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Keeps crashing intermittently on me. Sometimes play games for hours and no issue and other times after 20 or 30 minutes, game crashes with driver issue. Swapped to AMD GPU for cheaper price and regretting it.—Apr '23


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Experienced gamers avoid AMD for a reason... A bus company with drunk drivers can’t win long term users with paid reviews.—May '22


Excellent

2 months ago.

PC Master Race Card - you don't want additional heating cost in winter, this is one of few solutions.


Good

23 months ago.


Good

23 months ago.

kinda useless compared to the previous 6900 xt


Average

21 months ago.

meh


Excellent

18 months ago.

It is always a hit or a miss with AMD GPU. However, I have found RX 6950 to be a good hit. The GPU has not given me any problems and has been outperforming some of its competitors in some heavy-task operations. However, it is only worth upgrading to this GPU if you make a significant GPU jump. Upgrading from 6900xt to 6950xt would be unreasonable. While upgrading from anything below 6800xt will display a considerable improvement in GPU performance. This GPU will be worth while.


Excellent

5 months ago.

I have one and my friends with more expensive RTX 3080s can't compete thermally or just the horsepower of my card. If you want raytracing, then sure RTX 3080 is a little ahead, but on normal rasterized gaming they cant compete.


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