Radeon RX 6650M vs GeForce GTX 1170

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated116
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data22.61
Architectureno dataRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameno dataNavi 23
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 years ago)

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 coresno data1792
Core clock speedno data2068 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2416 MHz
Number of transistorsno data11,060 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data120 Watt
Texture fill rateno data270.6
Floating-point processing powerno data8.659 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data112
Ray Tracing Coresno data28

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data256.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 dataNo outputs

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


We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1170 and Radeon RX 6650M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1170 is a desktop card while Radeon RX 6650M is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1170
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AMD Radeon RX 6650M
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