Radeon RX 6650M vs ATI SDR

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 data22.62
ArchitectureRage 6 (2000−2007)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRage 6Navi 23
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 June 2000 (24 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 years ago)

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 coresno data1792
Core clock speed166 MHz2068 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2416 MHz
Number of transistors30 million11,060 million
Manufacturing process technology180 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate1270.6
Floating-point processing powerno data8.659 TFLOPS
ROPs264
TMUs6112
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
InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeSDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount32 MB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed166 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth2.656 GB/s256.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 Connectors1x VGANo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX7.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL1.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2000 4 January 2022
Maximum RAM amount 32 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 180 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 120 Watt

ATI SDR has 421.7% lower power consumption.

RX 6650M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 21 year, a 25500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2471.4% more advanced lithography process.

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

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


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