AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT vs 5700 XT

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6650 XT with 2048 shaders against the 2 years and 10 months older 5700 XT that utilizes 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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)

We use average GPU prices from all manufacturers by default. Enter the current price of a specific card for better accuracy.
Currency
8 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6
43.4
(Average)
Value Index
75.7
(Good)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 5700 XT over RX 6650 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6650 XT
  • Ray-tracing support with 32 dedicated RT cores
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 5700 XT
  • Has 60% higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 280.3 GB/s
  • Has 25% more shading units (2560 vs 2048)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
132
73
62
41
131
73
57
35
The Witcher 3
122
100
67
34
113
94
66
36
Counter-Strike 2
192
133
94
51
185
128
91
47
Far Cry 6
105
94
67
37
102
86
64
36
Hogwarts Legacy
69
61
44
23
67
56
39
18
CoD: Modern Warfare III
94
86
61
38
90
85
55
35
Ghost of Tsushima
76
62
41
22
75
58
39
21
Cyberpunk 2077
73
64
37
16
69
62
33
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
126
110
76
38
121
107
72
35
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 110 106
1080p Ultra 87 83
1440p Ultra 61 57
4K Ultra 33 31
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
9270
8566
Time Spy 9891 9421
Solar Bay 38938 -
Port Royal 4903 -
Fire Strike 29359 27551
Wild Life Extreme 18058 18403
Night Raid 115940 103057
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 6650 XT +11%
90831
81739
Background Blur 220.1 img/sec 148 img/sec
Face Detection 128.3 img/sec 89.5 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.94 Gpixels/sec 3.52 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.13 Gpixels/sec 4.98 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.68 Gpixels/sec 4.11 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.94 Gpixels/sec 0.75 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 408.2 Gpixels/sec 295.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 10694.7 FPS 10480.7 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
17092
16032
G2D Mark 926 920
DirectX 11 168 FPS 115 FPS
DirectX 12 62 FPS 63 FPS
GPU Compute 7442 Ops/s 7516 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 5344 & 18342 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 6650 XT +16%
1136.94
976.85
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 487 & 959 samples

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 6650 XT +20%
17945
14920
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 6650 XT +26%
21242
16852
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 6650 XT +17%
13940
11883
Image Classification (SP) 8220 6764
Image Segmentation (HP) 9263 7615
Image Super Resolution (Q) 20723 19081
Face Detection (HP) 27074 20621
Pose Estimation (Q) 76541 73667
Text Classification (SP) 2796 1970
Machine Translation (HP) 4281 2417
Object Detection (SP) 6880 6684
Depth Estimation (Q) 33354 30456
Style Transfer (SP) 185358 147087
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6650 XT and 5700 XT

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released May 10, 2022 July 7, 2019
Launch price (MSRP) $399 $399
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture RDNA 2.0 RDNA 1.0
GPU Codename Navi 23 Navi 10
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4060 - GeForce RTX 3060
Successor - - Radeon RX 9070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12600K or above - Intel Core i5 9600K or above
Desktop GPU rating (62nd and 65th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 2055 MHz 1605 MHz
Boost Clock 2635 MHz 1905 MHz
Shading Units 2048 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 160
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 64
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 32 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 2MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 169 GPixel/s 122 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 337 GTexel/s 305 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 6650 XT +10%
10.8 TFLOPS
9.8 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 176 W 225 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 7 nm
Die Size 237 mm² 251 mm²
Transistor Count 11 billion 10 billion
Transistor Density 46.41 MTr/mm² 39.84 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2190 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 17500 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
280.3 GB/s
RX 5700 XT +60%
448 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.1
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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