NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Price

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$ 98.48

$ 182.36 significantly less expensive

$ 280.84

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

287 points

5943 points

1970% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

7 FPS

126 FPS

119 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS

89 FPS

85 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

110 FPS

106 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

52 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

546 points

1854 points

239% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.76 points

1141.36 points

2240% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2400 points

110648 points

4510% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4552 points

87496 points

1822% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4783 points

108282 points

2163% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1058 MHz

2055 MHz

94% significantly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

80 GB/s

280.3 GB/s

250% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

64 W

175% significantly lower TDP

176 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

8.46 Gigapixels/s

168.6 Gigapixels/s

1891% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigatexels/s

337.3 Gigatexels/s

896% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

2048

433% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

385th of 586

82nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon RX 6650 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6650 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 650 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6650 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6650 XT has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 650 has a significantly lower TDP at 64 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6650 XT at 176 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6650 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 650.