AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280X 3 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

1687 points

5943 points

252% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

40 FPS

126 FPS

86 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

89 FPS

65 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS

110 FPS

75 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

52 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2350 points

26% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1854 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

850 MHz

2055 MHz

141% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

2635 MHz

163% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

8 GiB

166% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288 GB/s

2% slightly higher memory bandwidth

280.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

176 W

42% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

32 Gigapixels/s

168.6 Gigapixels/s

426% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128 Gigatexels/s

337.3 Gigatexels/s

163% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

10.79 TFLOPS

163% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

Identical

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

Identical

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 586

82nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

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

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon R9 280X vs Radeon RX 6650 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6650 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 280X in gaming.

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. In addition, the Radeon RX 6650 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6650 XT has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 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 Radeon RX 6650 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 176 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280X at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6650 XT is faster than the Radeon R9 280X.