NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 6 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3514 points

5943 points

69% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

75 FPS

126 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

52 FPS

89 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

110 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

52 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5621 points

203% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1854 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1382.74 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

1141.36 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64897 points

87496 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59548 points

108282 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

975 MHz

2055 MHz

110% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

2635 MHz

122% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

264 GB/s

280.3 GB/s

6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

170% significantly lower TDP

176 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.88 Gigapixels/s

168.6 Gigapixels/s

196% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

337.3 Gigatexels/s

137% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.55 TFLOPS

10.79 TFLOPS

137% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2048

6% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

128

6% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

138th of 586

82nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 6650 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6650 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6650 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6650 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6650 XT has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6650 XT at 176 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6650 XT is better than the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q.