AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
  • Around 40% higher core clock speed: 2055 MHz vs 1470 MHz
  • Around 60% higher boost clock speed: 2635 MHz vs 1650 MHz
  • Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 337.3 GTexel/s vs 224.4 GTexel/s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 5% lower typical power consumption: 176 Watt vs 184 Watt
  • Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 2190 MHz, 17.5 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 906 vs 836
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17209 vs 15917
  • Around 23% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 9886 vs 8017
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 10 May 2022 vs 7 Dec 2021
Core clock speed 2055 MHz vs 1470 MHz
Boost clock speed 2635 MHz vs 1650 MHz
Texture fill rate 337.3 GTexel/s vs 224.4 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 176 Watt vs 184 Watt
Memory clock speed 2190 MHz, 17.5 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 906 vs 836
PassMark - G3D Mark 17209 vs 15917
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 9886 vs 8017

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB

  • Around 6% higher pipelines: 2176 vs 2048
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB
Pipelines 2176 vs 2048
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 8 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
906
836
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
17209
15917
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
9886
8017
Name AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB
PassMark - G2D Mark 906 836
PassMark - G3D Mark 17209 15917
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 9886 8017
Geekbench - OpenCL 86435

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Turing
Code name Navi 23 TU106
Launch date 10 May 2022 7 Dec 2021
Place in performance rating 75 72

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2635 MHz 1650 MHz
Compute units 32
Core clock speed 2055 MHz 1470 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 674.6 GFLOPS (1:16) 224.4 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 21.59 TFLOPS (2:1) 14.36 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.79 TFLOPS 7.181 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2048 2176
Pixel fill rate 168.6 GPixel/s 79.20 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 337.3 GTexel/s 224.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 176 Watt 184 Watt
Transistor count 11060 million 10800 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 8-pin
Height 35 mm, 1.4 inches
Length 229 mm, 9 inches
Width 113 mm, 4.4 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 12 GB
Memory bandwidth 280.3 GB/s 336.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 192 bit
Memory clock speed 2190 MHz, 17.5 Gbps effective 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6