AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB, 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
$ 582.79 significantly less expensive
$ 863.63

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5943 points
24895 points
318% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS
529 FPS
403 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

89 FPS
351 FPS
261 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

110 FPS
477 FPS
367 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

52 FPS
207 FPS
155 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

71 FPS
112 FPS
41 FPS significantly higher Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1854 points
6837 points
268% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1141.36 points
4050.95 points
254% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87496 points
212685 points
143% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

108282 points
238996 points
120% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2055 MHz
10% slightly higher core clock speed
1855 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2635 MHz
5% slightly higher boost clock speed
2500 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
24 GiB
200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
384 Bit
200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

280.3 GB/s
960 GB/s
242% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

176 W
101% significantly lower TDP
355 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

168.6 Gigapixels/s
480 Gigapixels/s
184% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

337.3 Gigatexels/s
960 Gigatexels/s
184% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.79 TFLOPS
61.42 TFLOPS
469% significantly better floating point performance

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
384
200% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
192
200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

82nd of 586
3rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 May
2022 December

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 Radeon RX 7900 XTX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6650 XT in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6650 XT 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 6650 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6650 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 176 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX at 355 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is faster than the Radeon RX 6650 XT.

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