Radeon R9 390X2 vs RX 6650M XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking84not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency25.29no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)GCN (2012−2015)
GPU code nameNavi 23no data
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 January 2022 (2 years ago)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 cores20482
Core clock speed2068 MHzno data
Boost clock speed2416 MHz1000 MHz
Number of transistors11,060 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)120 Wattno data
Texture fill rate309.2no data
Floating-point processing power9.896 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64no data
TMUs128no data
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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8no data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR6512
Maximum RAM amount8 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bit5400 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)GDDR5
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.1no data
Vulkan1.3-

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6650M XT and Radeon R9 390X2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6650M XT is a notebook card while Radeon R9 390X2 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX 6650M XT
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