AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s).

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Around 6% higher texture fill rate: 337.3 GTexel/s vs 316.8 GTexel/s
Around 14% lower typical power consumption: 176 Watt vs 200 Watt

Texture fill rate	337.3 GTexel/s vs 316.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	176 Watt vs 200 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 22% higher core clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 2055 MHz
Around 88% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 2048
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 7 nm
Around 3% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 2190 MHz, 17.5 Gbps effective
Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1112 vs 907
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 19907 vs 17211
Around 7% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 10620 vs 9886
Around 18% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 101865 vs 86329

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2023 vs 10 May 2022
Core clock speed	2505 MHz vs 2055 MHz
Boost clock speed	2640 MHz vs 2635 MHz
Pipelines	3840 vs 2048
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 7 nm
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 2190 MHz, 17.5 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	1112 vs 907
PassMark - G3D Mark	19907 vs 17211
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	10620 vs 9886
Geekbench - OpenCL	101865 vs 86329

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

907

1112

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

17211

19907

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

9886

10620

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

86329

101865

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
PassMark - G2D Mark	907	1112
PassMark - G3D Mark	17211	19907
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	9886	10620
Geekbench - OpenCL	86329	101865
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		311.253
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		33.932
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		169.697
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1500.926
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		6622.553

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Ada Lovelace
Code name	Navi 23	AD106
Launch date	10 May 2022	2023
Place in performance rating	75	74
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2635 MHz	2640 MHz
Compute units	32
Core clock speed	2055 MHz	2505 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	4 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	674.6 GFLOPS (1:16)	316.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	21.59 TFLOPS (2:1)	20.28 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.79 TFLOPS	20.28 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	3840
Pixel fill rate	168.6 GPixel/s	126.7 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	337.3 GTexel/s	316.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	176 Watt	200 Watt
Transistor count	11060 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 12-pin
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	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	280.3 GB/s	288.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	2190 MHz, 17.5 Gbps effective	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6