Radeon RX 6650 XT vs HD 7970 X2

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 data62.47
Power efficiencyno data17.67
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNew ZealandNavi 23
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date31 August 2012 (12 years ago)10 May 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$899 $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 cores20482048
Core clock speed925 MHz2055 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2635 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million11,060 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)500 Watt176 Watt
Texture fill rate118.4337.3
Floating-point processing power3.789 TFLOPS10.79 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs128128
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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length292 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors3x 8-pin1x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount3 GB8 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz2190 MHz
Memory bandwidth264.0 GB/s280.3 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 August 2012 10 May 2022
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 500 Watt 176 Watt

RX 6650 XT has an age advantage of 9 years, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 184.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7970 X2 and Radeon RX 6650 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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