AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6650 XT and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 124% (2635MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (280.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 176W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6650 XT +175%

10.79 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6650 XT +173%

9902

GeForce GTX 970

3622

Blender

Radeon RX 6650 XT +306%

1229

GeForce GTX 970

302

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6650 XT +153%

38

GeForce GTX 970

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6650 XT +156%

77

GeForce GTX 970

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6650 XT +197%

119

GeForce GTX 970

40

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6650 XT +52%

64

GeForce GTX 970

42

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6650 XT +93%

85

GeForce GTX 970

44

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6650 XT +53%

150

GeForce GTX 970

98

Radeon RX 6650 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Sep 2014

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2055 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2635 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2190 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

280.3GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1664

128

TMUs

104

64

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

32

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

168.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

337.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

21.59 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.79 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

674.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 23

GPU Name

GM204

Navi 23 KXT (215-130000136)

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

11.06 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

237 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

176W

TDP

148W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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