GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which makes use of a 6 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 2200 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a frequency of 2250 MHz on this model. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 650		64 Watts
Radeon RX 6500 XT		107 Watts
	Difference: 43 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6500 XT should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 650 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650		80000 MB/sec
	Difference: 67456 (84%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT should be a lot (more or less 316%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 650. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 650		33856 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 106944 (316%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6500 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 650, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650		16928 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 53472 (316%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.