AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 280.84

$ 249.99

$ 30.85 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5943 points

6% slightly better overall score

5591 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

125 FPS

135 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

89 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

66 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

110 FPS

15 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

95 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

52 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1854 points

2317 points

24% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1141.36 points

2880.41 points

152% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87496 points

97092 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

108282 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

91845 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2055 MHz

2317 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2635 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

2572 MHz

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

280.3 GB/s

320 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

176 W

130 W

35% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

168.6 Gigapixels/s

104% significantly higher pixel rate

82.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

337.3 Gigatexels/s

63% significantly higher texture rate

205.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

2560

25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

60% significantly more texture mapping units

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

85th of 597

91st of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 May

2025 July

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

Radeon RX 6650 XT vs GeForce RTX 5050 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6650 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 5050 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 5050 has a slightly 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 6650 XT has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 has a slightly lower TDP at 130 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 5050.