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Radeon RX 590 vs Radeon RX 6650 XT

Intro

The Radeon RX 590 features a GPU core speed of 1469 MHz, and the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6650 XT, which has a core clock frequency of 2055 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2190 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 590 175 Watts
Radeon RX 6650 XT 176 Watts
Difference: 1 Watts (1%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6650 XT should be just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 590 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT 287072 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590 262144 MB/sec
Difference: 24928 (10%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6650 XT is much (about 24%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 590. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT 263040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 590 211536 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 51504 (24%)

Pixel Rate

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

Radeon RX 6650 XT 131520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590 47008 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 84512 (180%)

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 590 Radeon RX 6650 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year November 2018 May 2022
Code Name Polaris 30 Navi 23
Memory 8192 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1469 MHz 2055 MHz
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 4380 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 175 watts 176 watts
Bandwidth 262144 MB/sec 287072 MB/sec
Texel Rate 211536 Mtexels/sec 263040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 47008 Mpixels/sec 131520 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2304 2048
Texture Mapping Units 144 128
Render Output Units 32 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 12 nm 7 nm
Transistors 5700 million 11060 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at 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 the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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Radeon RX 590

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Radeon RX 6650 XT

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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