AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2.2x more core clock speed: 2055 MHz vs 941 MHz
2.7x more boost clock speed: 2635 MHz vs 967 MHz
3114.5x more texture fill rate: 337.3 GTexel/s vs 108.3 GTexel / s
Around 52% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1344
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
2.7x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 3 GB
3.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 914 vs 279
4.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17137 vs 3496
Around 39% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1859 vs 1336
6.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 87479 vs 12758

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 May 2022 vs 12 March 2014
Core clock speed	2055 MHz vs 941 MHz
Boost clock speed	2635 MHz vs 967 MHz
Texture fill rate	337.3 GTexel/s vs 108.3 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 1344
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 3 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	914 vs 279
PassMark - G3D Mark	17137 vs 3496
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1859 vs 1336
Geekbench - OpenCL	87479 vs 12758

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

Around 76% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 176 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 176 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

914

279

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

17137

3496

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1859

1336

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

87479

12758

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
PassMark - G2D Mark	914	279
PassMark - G3D Mark	17137	3496
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1859	1336
Geekbench - OpenCL	87479	12758
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		34.836
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		960.114
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.038
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		59.57
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		81.753
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6350
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6350
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3353

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Kepler
Code name	Navi 23	GK104
Launch date	10 May 2022	12 March 2014
Place in performance rating	106	691
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2635 MHz	967 MHz
Compute units	32
Core clock speed	2055 MHz	941 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	1344
Pixel fill rate	168.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	337.3 GTexel/s	108.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	176 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	11060 million	3,540 million
CUDA cores		1344
Floating-point performance		2,599 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	No outputs
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support		Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support		Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support		Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None
Bus support		PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.1	1.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	280.3 GB/s	120.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	2190 MHz, 17.5 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Standard memory configuration		GDDR5
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
BatteryBoost
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
TXAA