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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 280.84
$ 249.99
$ 30.85 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5943 points
7% slightly better overall score
5507 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS
135 FPS
9 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

89 FPS
24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
66 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

110 FPS
16 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
94 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

52 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
52 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1854 points
2317 points
24% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1141.36 points
2880.41 points
152% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87496 points
97092 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) 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
80

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
100% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

82nd of 586
91st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
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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
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6650 XT is faster than the GeForce RTX 5050.

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