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Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon RX 6650 XT

Intro

The Radeon RX 480 has a GPU clock speed of 1120 MHz, and the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory is set to run at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6650 XT, which features a GPU core clock speed of 2055 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 2190 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480 150 Watts
Radeon RX 6650 XT 176 Watts
Difference: 26 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6650 XT should in theory be a small bit superior to the Radeon RX 480 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT 287072 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480 262144 MB/sec
Difference: 24928 (10%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6650 XT is quite a bit (approximately 63%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT 263040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480 161280 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 101760 (63%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6650 XT will be quite a bit (about 267%) more effective at AA than the Radeon RX 480, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT 131520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480 35840 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 95680 (267%)

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 480 Radeon RX 6650 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year June 2016 May 2022
Code Name Polaris 10 Navi 23
Memory 8192 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1120 MHz 2055 MHz
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 4380 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 176 watts
Bandwidth 262144 MB/sec 287072 MB/sec
Texel Rate 161280 Mtexels/sec 263040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 35840 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 14 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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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Radeon RX 480

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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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