Radeon RX 6650 XT vs RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

Place in performance ranking	77	69
Place by popularity	not in top-100	99
Value for money	27.04	28.88
Architecture	RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)	Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name	Navi 10	Navi 23
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	7 July 2019 (4 years ago)	10 May 2022 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$449	$399
Current price	$409 (0.9x MSRP)	$465 (1.2x MSRP)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

RX 6650 XT has 7% better value for money than RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2560	2048
Core clock speed	1680 MHz	2055 MHz
Boost clock speed	1980 MHz	2635 MHz
Number of transistors	10,300 million	11,060 million
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	176 Watt
Texture fill rate	316.8	337.3

Size and compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	17500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	448.0 GB/s	280.3 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	+	+

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.5	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	2.1
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary 42.87

RX 6650 XT 44.69
+4.2%

RX 6650 XT outperforms RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary by 4% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary 16603

RX 6650 XT 17310
+4.3%

RX 6650 XT outperforms RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary by 4% in Passmark.