AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

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

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AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5943 points

36% slightly better overall score

4339 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

125 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

92 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

89 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

64 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

110 FPS

20 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

90 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

52 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

50 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1141.36 points

2969.98 points

160% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87496 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

85838 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

108282 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

80080 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2055 MHz

101% significantly higher core clock speed

1020 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2635 MHz

75% significantly higher boost clock speed

1500 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

384 GB/s

36% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

176 W

50 W

251% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

168.6 Gigapixels/s

251% significantly higher pixel rate

48 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

337.3 Gigatexels/s

181% significantly higher texture rate

120 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

84th of 597

115th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 May

2025 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

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 Laptop comparison

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

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 maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6650 XT at 176 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6650 XT over the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop.