Radeon RX 6650 XT vs Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated78
Place by popularitynot in top-10098
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data62.46
Power efficiencyno data17.67
Architectureno dataRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameno dataNavi 23
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)10 May 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$399

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores162048
Core clock speed1296 MHz2055 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2635 MHz
Number of transistorsno data11,060 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt176 Watt
Texture fill rateno data337.3
Floating-point processing powerno data10.79 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data128
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeLPDDR5-6400GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2190 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data280.3 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 10 May 2022
Chip lithography 5 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 176 Watt

Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU has a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 1660% lower power consumption.

RX 6650 XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU and Radeon RX 6650 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU is a notebook card while Radeon RX 6650 XT is a desktop one.


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Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU
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