Radeon 520 Mobile DDR3 vs RX 6650 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking78not rated
Place by popularity98not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation62.43no data
Power efficiency17.52no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameNavi 23Banks
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date10 May 2022 (2 years ago)18 April 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores2048320
Core clock speed2055 MHz1030 MHz
Boost clock speed2635 MHzno data
Number of transistors11,060 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)176 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate337.320.60
Floating-point processing power10.79 TFLOPS0.6592 TFLOPS
ROPs648
TMUs12820
Ray Tracing Cores32no data

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x8
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR6DDR3
Maximum RAM amount8 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2190 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth280.3 GB/s16 GB/s

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 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4aPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.56.5 (5.1)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.1 (1.2)
Vulkan1.31.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 May 2022 18 April 2017
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 176 Watt 50 Watt

RX 6650 XT has an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

520 Mobile DDR3, on the other hand, has 252% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6650 XT and Radeon 520 Mobile DDR3. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6650 XT is a desktop card while Radeon 520 Mobile DDR3 is a notebook one.


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