Radeon RX 6650 XT vs RX 590 GME

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated80
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data62.60
Power efficiencyno data17.40
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code namePolaris 20Navi 23
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date9 March 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 cores23042048
Core clock speed1257 MHz2055 MHz
Boost clock speed1420 MHz2635 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million11,060 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt176 Watt
Texture fill rate204.5337.3
Floating-point processing power6.543 TFLOPS10.79 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs144128
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
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 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 amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz2190 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 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 HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.1
Vulkan1.31.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 March 2020 10 May 2022
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 176 Watt

RX 590 GME has 0.6% lower power consumption.

RX 6650 XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 590 GME and Radeon RX 6650 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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