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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce GTX 1650

Radeon RX 6500 XT
VS
GeForce GTX 1650
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
Navi 24
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650
TU117

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6500 XT with 1024 shaders against the 2 years and 10 months older GeForce GTX 1650 that utilizes 14 pipelines and 896 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
4 GB GDDR6
VS
4 GB GDDR5
22.7
(Mediocre)
Value Index
12.2
(Bad)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1650 over RX 6500 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6500 XT
  • Performs better (up to 39%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
  • 93% higher maximum theoretical performance (5.8 vs 3 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 36% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 30 vs 22 FPS
  • Ray-tracing support with 16 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 34% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (53K vs 39K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 6500 XT
vs
GTX 1650

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
84
46
33
22
57
32
24
15
The Witcher 3
60
50
28
14
43
33
21
10
Counter-Strike 2
95
67
44
18
75
54
34
14
Far Cry 6
64
54
40
16
45
41
26
13
Hogwarts Legacy
36
28
21
12
25
21
17
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
54
42
33
18
37
31
20
14
Ghost of Tsushima
39
29
21
10
25
15
14
-
Cyberpunk 2077
36
30
18
-
28
22
13
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
70
61
36
19
45
43
29
13
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 60 42
1080p Ultra 45 32
1440p Ultra 30 22
4K Ultra 15 11
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 6500 XT +39%
4763
GTX 1650
3420
Time Spy 4942 3562
Solar Bay 20010 12275
Port Royal 368 -
Fire Strike 15575 9702
Wild Life Extreme 8990 7353
Night Raid 65355 46224
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 6500 XT +34%
53081
GTX 1650
39481
Background Blur 130.3 img/sec 66.4 img/sec
Face Detection 70.1 img/sec 43.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.59 Gpixels/sec 1.51 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.21 Gpixels/sec 1.68 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.02 Gpixels/sec 1.87 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.65 Gpixels/sec 0.49 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 223 Gpixels/sec 187.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7470.5 FPS 5261.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 6500 XT
2030
GTX 1650
n/a

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 6500 XT +22%
9617
GTX 1650
7868
G2D Mark 817 551
DirectX 11 90 FPS 58 FPS
DirectX 12 38 FPS 35 FPS
GPU Compute 4296 Ops/s 3031 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 3351 & 37746 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 6500 XT
424.41
GTX 1650 +3%
438.56
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 119 & 919 samples
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 6500 XT +37%
10359
GTX 1650
7569
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 6500 XT +117%
12861
GTX 1650
5940
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 6500 XT +41%
7842
GTX 1650
5581
Image Classification (SP) 3867 3208
Image Segmentation (HP) 5136 4254
Image Super Resolution (Q) 11758 7050
Face Detection (HP) 14844 6849
Pose Estimation (Q) 42787 23562
Text Classification (SP) 1986 1755
Machine Translation (HP) 2665 3096
Object Detection (SP) 4251 3710
Depth Estimation (Q) 19707 12946
Style Transfer (SP) 101802 48894
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6500 XT and GeForce GTX 1650

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 19, 2022 April 23, 2019
Launch price (MSRP) $199 $149
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Turing
GPU Codename Navi 24 TU117
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3050 -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12400 or above - Intel Core i5 9400 or above
Desktop GPU rating (79th and 88th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 2310 MHz 1485 MHz
Boost Clock 2815 MHz 1665 MHz
Shading Units 1024 896
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 56
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 14
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 16 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1024KB shared 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 90 GPixel/s 53 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 180 GTexel/s 93 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 6500 XT +93%
5.8 TFLOPS
GTX 1650
3 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 107 W 75 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 6 nm 12 nm
Die Size 107 mm² 200 mm²
Transistor Count 5 billion 4 billion
Transistor Density 46.73 MTr/mm² 20 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Size 4 GB 4 GB
Memory Clock 2248 MHz 2001 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 8000 Mbps
Bus 64-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 6500 XT +12%
143.9 GB/s
GTX 1650
128.1 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
CUDA - 7.5
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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