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Radeon RX 5600 XT vs Radeon RX 6650 XT

Intro

The Radeon RX 5600 XT features a GPU clock speed of 1375 MHz, and the 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory is set to run at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6650 XT, which comes with a clock speed of 2055 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2190 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It features 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 160 Watts
Radeon RX 6650 XT 176 Watts
Difference: 16 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should in theory be just a bit superior to the Radeon RX 6650 XT overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 344064 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6650 XT 287072 MB/sec
Difference: 56992 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6650 XT will be a lot (about 33%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5600 XT. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT 263040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT 198000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 65040 (33%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6650 XT is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT 131520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT 88000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 43520 (49%)

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

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Specifications

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Model Radeon RX 5600 XT Radeon RX 6650 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year January 2020 May 2022
Code Name Navi 10 XLE Navi 23
Memory 6144 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1375 MHz 2055 MHz
Memory Speed 1500 GB/s 2190 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 160 watts 176 watts
Bandwidth 344064 MB/sec 287072 MB/sec
Texel Rate 198000 Mtexels/sec 263040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 88000 Mpixels/sec 131520 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2304 2048
Texture Mapping Units 144 128
Render Output Units 64 64
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Bus Width 192-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 7 nm 7 nm
Transistors 10300 million 11060 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 ×16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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