AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 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).

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 2635 MHz vs 2610 MHz
Around 62% lower typical power consumption: 176 Watt vs 285 Watt
Around 67% higher memory clock speed: 2190 MHz, 17.5 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Boost clock speed	2635 MHz vs 2610 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	176 Watt vs 285 Watt
Memory clock speed	2190 MHz, 17.5 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 12% higher core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 2055 MHz
Around 42% higher texture fill rate: 480.2 GTexel/s vs 337.3 GTexel/s
2.9x more pipelines: 5888 vs 2048
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 7 nm
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB
Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1166 vs 914
Around 57% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 26959 vs 17137
2.1x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 3854 vs 1859
Around 92% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 168049 vs 87479

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2023 vs 10 May 2022
Core clock speed	2310 MHz vs 2055 MHz
Texture fill rate	480.2 GTexel/s vs 337.3 GTexel/s
Pipelines	5888 vs 2048
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 7 nm
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 8 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	1166 vs 914
PassMark - G3D Mark	26959 vs 17137
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3854 vs 1859
Geekbench - OpenCL	168049 vs 87479

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

914

1166

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

17137

26959

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1859

3854

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

87479

168049

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
PassMark - G2D Mark	914	1166
PassMark - G3D Mark	17137	26959
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1859	3854
Geekbench - OpenCL	87479	168049
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		417.133
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		55.476
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		245.639
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		2459.317

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Ada Lovelace
Code name	Navi 23	AD104
Launch date	10 May 2022	2023
Place in performance rating	106	35
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2635 MHz	2610 MHz
Compute units	32
Core clock speed	2055 MHz	2310 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	4 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	674.6 GFLOPS (1:16)	480.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	21.59 TFLOPS (2:1)	30.74 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.79 TFLOPS	30.74 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	5888
Pixel fill rate	168.6 GPixel/s	167.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	337.3 GTexel/s	480.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	176 Watt	285 Watt
Transistor count	11060 million	35800 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	600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 12-pin
Height		61 mm, 2.4 inches
Length		336 mm, 13.2 inches
Width		140 mm, 5.5 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	504.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	192 bit
Memory clock speed	2190 MHz, 17.5 Gbps effective	1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6X