AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs Radeon RX 6650 XT

[ VERDICT ] Winner: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (85/100)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX leads overall with a score of 85/100 compared to Radeon RX 6650 XT (31/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6650 XT
4K Gaming 91.0 Excellent
NanoReview Score 85.0 Very Good
Rasterization 94.0 Excellent
Ray Tracing 78.0 Very Good
Efficiency 39.0 Poor
Gaming 30.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6650 XT
Memory Size 24 GB GDDR6 (384-bit)
Bus 128-bit
ECC No
Effective Memory Speed 17500 Mbps
Memory Clock 2190 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB
Memory Type GDDR6

Performance

Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6650 XT
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) RDNA 2.0
Stream Processors 6,144 Stream Processors

Power

Power specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6650 XT
Tdp 355W TBP

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6650 XT
Fire Strike 29359
Night Raid 115940
Port Royal 4903
Solar Bay 38938
Time Spy 9891
Wild Life Extreme 18058

API

API specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6650 XT
DLSS No
DirectX 12
DisplayPort 1.4a
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes
Vulkan 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6650 XT
1080p High 110
1080p Ultra 87
1440p Ultra 61
4K Ultra 33
CoD: Modern Warfare III 94866138
Counter-Strike 2 1921339451
Cyberpunk 2077 73643716
Far Cry 6 105946737
Forza Horizon 5 132736241
Ghost of Tsushima 76624122
Hogwarts Legacy 69614423
Margin of Error Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1261107638
The Witcher 3 1221006734

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6650 XT
Backend DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 33354
Face Detection (HP) 27074
Framework ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 8220
Image Segmentation (HP) 9263
Image Super Resolution (Q) 20723
Machine Translation (HP) 4281
Object Detection (SP) 6880
Pose Estimation (Q) 76541
Style Transfer (SP) 185358
Text Classification (SP) 2796

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6650 XT
API OpenCL
Background Blur 220.1 img/sec
Edge Detection 4.13 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 128.3 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.94 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.68 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 2.94 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 10694.7 FPS
Stereo Matching 408.2 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6650 XT
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) RDNA 2.0
Build Discrete
Case Desktop
GPU Codename Navi 23
Launch price (MSRP) $399
Nvidia Equivalent -GeForce RTX 4060
Purpose Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 12600Kor above
Released May 10, 2022
Segment High-end
Vendor Amd

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6650 XT
Base Clock 2055 MHz
Boost Clock 2635 MHz
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 32
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64
Shading Units 2048
Tensor Cores No
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6650 XT
DirectX 11 168 FPS
DirectX 12 62 FPS
G2D Mark 926
GPU Compute 7445 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6650 XT
Die Size 237 mm²
Fabrication Process 7 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8
Manufacturing TSMC
TGP 176 W
Transistor Count 11 billion
Transistor Density 46.41 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6650 XT
Pixel Fill Rate 169 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 337 GTexel/s

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