AMD Radeon RX 6650M: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon RX 6650M sales 4 January 2022. This is a laptop graphics card based on a RDNA 2 architecture and made with 7 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 8 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 18 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 256.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 4.0 x8 interface. Power consumption is at 120 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 34.84% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about Radeon RX 6650M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking121
ArchitectureRDNA 2 (2020−2022)
GPU code nameNavi 23
Market segmentLaptop
Release date4 January 2022 (1 year old)

Technical specs

Radeon RX 6650M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 6650M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1792of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Boost clock speed2222 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors11,060 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology7 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)120 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate270.6of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon RX 6650M's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelarge
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsNone

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 6650M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GBof 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed18000 MHzof 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 6650M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API support

APIs supported by Radeon RX 6650M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12.0 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.5
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.1
Vulkan1.2

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon RX 6650M. 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 6650M 34.84

Passmark

This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various 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 6650M 13565

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 16%

RX 6650M 32846

3DMark Fire Strike Score

Benchmark coverage: 14%

RX 6650M 22516

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

RX 6650M 25739

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon RX 6650M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD117

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 127

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 60−65
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 60−65
Battlefield 5 100−110
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 95−100
Cyberpunk 2077 106
Far Cry 5 90−95
Far Cry New Dawn 85−90
Forza Horizon 4 100−110
Hitman 3 179
Horizon Zero Dawn 75−80
Red Dead Redemption 2 55−60
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 80−85
Watch Dogs: Legion 104

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 60−65
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 60−65
Battlefield 5 100−110
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 95−100
Cyberpunk 2077 79
Far Cry 5 90−95
Far Cry New Dawn 85−90
Forza Horizon 4 100−110
Hitman 3 161
Horizon Zero Dawn 75−80
Metro Exodus 86
Red Dead Redemption 2 55−60
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 80−85
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 167
Watch Dogs: Legion 94

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 60−65
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 60−65
Battlefield 5 100−110
Cyberpunk 2077 64
Far Cry 5 90−95
Far Cry New Dawn 85−90
Forza Horizon 4 100−110
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 90
Watch Dogs: Legion 62

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 55−60
Hitman 3 60−65
Horizon Zero Dawn 45−50
Metro Exodus 35−40
Red Dead Redemption 2 27−30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 50−55

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 35−40
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 35−40
Battlefield 5 75−80
Cyberpunk 2077 24−27
Far Cry 5 60−65
Far Cry New Dawn 65−70
Forza Horizon 4 70−75
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 24−27
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 30−33
Hitman 3 30−35
Horizon Zero Dawn 24−27
Metro Exodus 21−24
Red Dead Redemption 2 18−20
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 27−30
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 40−45

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 21−24
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 21−24
Battlefield 5 40−45
Cyberpunk 2077 10−12
Far Cry 5 30−35
Far Cry New Dawn 35−40
Forza Horizon 4 45−50
Watch Dogs: Legion 16−18

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon RX 6650M performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 6650M is GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q, which is faster by 2% and higher by 6 positions in our ranking.

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Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon RX 6650M:

Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended processors

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