AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6800 16 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Price

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$ 519.00

$ 280.84

$ 238.16 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

9568 points

60% significantly better overall score

5943 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

196 FPS

70 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

126 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

143 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

89 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

173 FPS

62 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

110 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

52 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

16155 points

771% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1854 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1896.07 points

66% significantly higher Blender score

1141.36 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

176154 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

110648 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

130005 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

87496 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

133046 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

108282 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1815 MHz

2055 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2105 MHz

2635 MHz

25% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s

82% significantly higher memory bandwidth

280.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

176 W

42% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

202.1 Gigapixels/s

19% slightly higher pixel rate

168.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

505.2 Gigatexels/s

49% significantly higher texture rate

337.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.17 TFLOPS

49% significantly better floating point performance

10.79 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

87% significantly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

87% significantly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

41st of 586

82nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November

2022 May

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 6800 vs Radeon RX 6650 XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6650 XT in gaming.

In our comparison, 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 6800 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6650 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 176 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6800 is faster than the Radeon RX 6650 XT.