Radeon RX 6650 XT vs ATI X1800 CrossFire Edition

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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 data62.59
Power efficiencyno data17.40
ArchitectureR500 (2005−2007)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameR520Navi 23
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date20 December 2005 (19 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 coresno data2048
Core clock speed600 MHz2055 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2635 MHz
Number of transistors321 million11,060 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)113 Watt176 Watt
Texture fill rate9.600337.3
Floating-point processing powerno data10.79 TFLOPS
ROPs1664
TMUs16128
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 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz2190 MHz
Memory bandwidth44.8 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model3.06.5
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 December 2005 10 May 2022
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 113 Watt 176 Watt

ATI X1800 CrossFire Edition has 55.8% lower power consumption.

RX 6650 XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 16 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X1800 CrossFire Edition and Radeon RX 6650 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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