AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT Reference Design Review

Name: AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT Reference Design
Brand: AMD
Price: 1100 USD

on May 18th, 2022,

Manufacturer: AMD

Test System

Test System - VGA 2022.1
Processor:	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, PBO Max Enabled (Zen 3, 32 MB Cache)
Motherboard:	EVGA X570 Dark BIOS 1.03
Resizable BAR:	Enabled on all supported AMD & NVIDIA cards
Memory:	Thermaltake TOUGHRAM, 16 GB DDR4 @ 4000 MHz 20-23-23-42 1T Infinity Fabric @ 2000 MHz (1:1)
Cooling:	Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240L V2 240 mm AIO
Thermal Paste:	Arctic MX-5
Storage:	2x Neo Forza NFP455 2 TB M.2 NVMe SSD
Power Supply:	Seasonic Prime Ultra Titanium 850 W
Case:	darkFlash DLZ31 Mesh
Operating System:	Windows 10 Professional 64-bit Version 21H2 (Nov 2021 Update)
Drivers:	RX 6650 XT, 6750 XT, 6950 XT: 22.10.01.02 Press Driver RX 6400: 22.4.1 Beta RTX 3090 Ti: 512.16 Press Driver All other NVIDIA: 511.79 WHQL All other AMD: 22.3.1 WHQL

Benchmark scores in other reviews are only comparable when this exact same configuration is used.

All games and cards are tested with the drivers listed above—no performance results were recycled between test systems. Only this exact system with exactly the same configuration is used.
All graphics cards are tested using the same game version.
All games are set to their highest quality setting unless indicated otherwise.
AA and AF are applied via in-game settings, not via the driver's control panel.
Before starting measurements, we heat up the card for each test to ensure a steady state is tested. This ensures that the card won't boost to unrealistically high clocks for only a few seconds until it heats up, as that doesn't represent prolonged gameplay.

Each game is tested at these screen resolutions:

1920x1080: Most popular monitor resolution.
2560x1440: Intermediary resolution between Full HD and 4K, with reasonable performance requirements.
3840x2160: 4K Ultra HD resolution, available on the latest high-end monitors.

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