AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 380X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT and AMD Radeon R9 380X videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 2.7x more boost clock speed: 2635 MHz vs 970 MHz
  • 2715.8x more texture fill rate: 337.3 GTexel/s vs 124.2 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 8% lower typical power consumption: 176 Watt vs 190 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • 2.3x more memory clock speed: 2190 MHz, 17.5 Gbps effective vs 970 MHz
  • Around 35% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 914 vs 677
  • 2.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17137 vs 6171
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 10 May 2022 vs 19 November 2015
Boost clock speed 2635 MHz vs 970 MHz
Texture fill rate 337.3 GTexel/s vs 124.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 176 Watt vs 190 Watt
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 2190 MHz, 17.5 Gbps effective vs 970 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 914 vs 677
PassMark - G3D Mark 17137 vs 6171

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 380X

  • Around 64% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 3053 vs 1859
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3053 vs 1859

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 380X

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
914
677
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
17137
6171
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
1859
3053
Name AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon R9 380X
PassMark - G2D Mark 914 677
PassMark - G3D Mark 17137 6171
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1859 3053
Geekbench - OpenCL 87479
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9685
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9685
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon R9 380X

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 GCN 3.0
Code name Navi 23 Antigua
Launch date 10 May 2022 19 November 2015
Place in performance rating 106 309
Design AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $229
Price now $528.44
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 15.61

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2635 MHz 970 MHz
Compute units 32 32
Core clock speed 2055 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 674.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 21.59 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.79 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2048 2048
Pixel fill rate 168.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 337.3 GTexel/s 124.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 176 Watt 190 Watt
Transistor count 11060 million 5,000 million
Floating-point performance 3,973 gflops
Stream Processors 2048

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Full Height / Full Length
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin ​2 x 6-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Length 221 mm

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12
OpenCL 2.1 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan
Mantle

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 280.3 GB/s 182.4 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 64 bit
Memory clock speed 2190 MHz, 17.5 Gbps effective 970 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
High bandwidth memory (HBM)

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore