AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Price

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$ 369.99

$ 98.48

$ 271.51 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5600 points

1851% significantly better overall score

287 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

116 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

85 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

102 FPS

97 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

49 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9727 points

1681% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

546 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1068.60 points

2091% significantly higher Blender score

48.76 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

83409 points

3310% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

2446 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82559 points

1652% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4712 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

64460 points

1401% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4293 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

109165 points

4448% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

2400 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82739 points

1717% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4552 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93271 points

1850% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4783 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1968 MHz

86% significantly higher core clock speed

1058 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

2 GiB

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

256 GB/s

220% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W

64 W

150% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.7 Gigapixels/s

1857% significantly higher pixel rate

8.46 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

331.4 Gigatexels/s

878% significantly higher texture rate

33.86 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

433% significantly more shading units

384

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

90th of 586

386th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 6600 XT vs GeForce GTX 650 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 650 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6600 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6600 XT has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 650 has a significantly lower TDP at 64 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6600 XT at 160 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6600 XT over the GeForce GTX 650.