AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, 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
$ 286.15 significantly less expensive
$ 566.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5943 points
13092 points
120% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS
305 FPS
179 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

89 FPS
156 FPS
67 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

110 FPS
227 FPS
117 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

52 FPS
124 FPS
72 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1854 points
5256 points
183% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1141.36 points
6174.82 points
441% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87496 points
188870 points
115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

108282 points
181089 points
67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2055 MHz
2325 MHz
13% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2635 MHz
4% slightly higher boost clock speed
2512 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

280.3 GB/s
672 GB/s
139% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

176 W
42% slightly lower TDP
250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

168.6 Gigapixels/s
201 Gigapixels/s
19% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

337.3 Gigatexels/s
482.3 Gigatexels/s
42% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048
6144
200% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128
192
49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
80
25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

82nd of 586
27th 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 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR7

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 5070 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6650 XT in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5070 over the Radeon RX 6650 XT.

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