GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6950 XT Gaming OC 16G, 16GB GDDR6, 2x HDMI, 2x DP

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is a bit of a strange proposition, depending up your viewpoint. If you come into it expecting to see similar performance increases as you'd get from a Ti Nvidia card then it definitely isn't that. There are no increases in either Shader count or the number of Ray Accelerators. All the benefits are to be found from the effective memory bandwidth when utilising the AMD Infinity Cache, and the raw clock speed increases on the RDNA 2 GPU itself.

Averaged over our 25-game strong test suite, at 4K resolution, we find the Gigabyte RX 6950 XT Gaming OC 9% faster than the original RX 6900 XT reference design—very nice. With these gains, the card is able to overtake the more expensive NVIDIA RTX 3090 by 1%, but the recently released RTX 3090 Ti is still 7% faster. Compared to the RTX 3080 Ti, which sells for $1,200, the RX 6950 XT is 3% faster. Both the RTX 3080 and RX 6800 XT are roughly 13% behind. While performance is always near the top, it does vary greatly between games, so make sure to check out the titles you're playing. AMD's new Radeon RX 6950 XT is the perfect choice for gaming at 4K. With the newest drivers, AMD seems to have improved performance in situations where the games ended up CPU-limited; older DirectX 11 titles also show good gains.