Radeon RX 6650M XT: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon RX 6650M XT 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.
General info
Some basic facts about Radeon RX 6650M XT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | RDNA 2 (2020−2022) | |
| GPU code name | Navi 23 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 4 January 2022 (2 years ago) |
Technical specs
Radeon RX 6650M XT's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 6650M XT's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2048 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Boost clock speed | 2162 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 11,060 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 120 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 309.2 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Size and compatibility
Information on Radeon RX 6650M XT'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 size | large | |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 6650M XT: 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 type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 18000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 256.0 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
| Shared memory | - |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 6650M XT. 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 Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon RX 6650M XT, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12.0 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 6650M XT is GeForce RTX 2080 Super Mobile.
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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