Radeon RX 6650M vs RX 580 OEM

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated116
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data22.46
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameEllesmereNavi 23
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date29 June 2016 (8 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores23041792
Core clock speed1120 MHz2068 MHz
Boost clock speed1266 MHz2416 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million11,060 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate182.3270.6
Floating-point processing power5.834 TFLOPS8.659 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs144112
Ray Tracing Coresno data28

Form factor & 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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s256.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 June 2016 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 120 Watt

RX 6650M has an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 25% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 580 OEM and Radeon RX 6650M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 580 OEM is a desktop card while Radeon RX 6650M is a notebook one.


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