AMD Radeon VII vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Compare AMD Radeon VII 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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$ 945.00

$ 280.84

$ 664.16 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6138 points

3% slightly better overall score

5943 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

107 FPS

126 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

100 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

89 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

106 FPS

110 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

52 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9129 points

392% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1854 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

817.47 points

1141.36 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

77386 points

110648 points

42% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92086 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

87496 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

91729 points

108282 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

2055 MHz

46% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1750 MHz

2635 MHz

50% significantly 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

4096 Bit

3100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

1024 GB/s

265% significantly higher memory bandwidth

280.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

176 W

70% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

115.26 Gigapixels/s

168.6 Gigapixels/s

46% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

432.24 Gigatexels/s

28% slightly higher texture rate

337.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.8 TFLOPS

27% slightly 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

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

79th of 586

82nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX Vega Series

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

HBM2

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon VII vs Radeon RX 6650 XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6650 XT beats the Radeon VII in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon VII has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6650 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 176 W when compared to the Radeon VII at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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