AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT and AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 78% higher core clock speed: 2055 MHz vs 1156 MHz
Around 79% higher boost clock speed: 2635 MHz vs 1471 MHz
Around 2% higher texture fill rate: 337.3 GTexel/s vs 330.00 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
Around 19% lower typical power consumption: 176 Watt vs 210 Watt
Around 37% higher memory clock speed: 2190 MHz, 17.5 Gbps effective vs 1600 MHz
Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 914 vs 768
Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17137 vs 13093
Around 24% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1859 vs 1501

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 May 2022 vs 14 August 2017
Core clock speed	2055 MHz vs 1156 MHz
Boost clock speed	2635 MHz vs 1471 MHz
Texture fill rate	337.3 GTexel/s vs 330.00 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	176 Watt vs 210 Watt
Memory clock speed	2190 MHz, 17.5 Gbps effective vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	914 vs 768
PassMark - G3D Mark	17137 vs 13093
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1859 vs 1501

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Around 75% higher pipelines: 3584 vs 2048
Around 87% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 163998 vs 87479

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	3584 vs 2048
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	163998 vs 87479

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

914

768

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

17137

13093

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1859

1501

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

87479

163998

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
PassMark - G2D Mark	914	768
PassMark - G3D Mark	17137	13093
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1859	1501
Geekbench - OpenCL	87479	163998
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		184.405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1765.06
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		12.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		79.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1022.925
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3361

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	GCN 5.0
Code name	Navi 23	Vega 10
Launch date	10 May 2022	14 August 2017
Place in performance rating	106	224
Design		Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2635 MHz	1471 MHz
Compute units	32	56
Core clock speed	2055 MHz	1156 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	674.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	21.59 TFLOPS (2:1)	21 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.79 TFLOPS	10.5 TFLOPs
Pipelines	2048	3584
Pixel fill rate	168.6 GPixel/s	94.00 GP/s
Texture fill rate	337.3 GTexel/s	330.00 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	176 Watt	210 Watt
Transistor count	11060 million	12,500 million
Floating-point performance		10.5 TFLOPs
Render output units		64
Stream Processors		3584
Texture Units		256
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt	650 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	2x 8-pin
Length		267 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	2.1	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	280.3 GB/s	410 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	2048 bit
Memory clock speed	2190 MHz, 17.5 Gbps effective	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore