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AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT Review: Increasing the Speed Limit

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Tom’s Hardware Verdict

The PowerColor RX 6650 XT Hellhound Spectral White offers a minor upgrade over the existing RX 6600 XT, at a slightly higher price. The bump in memory speed from 16Gbps to 18Gbps helps a bit, but this feels more like AMD building more of a separation between the RX 6600 and the next step up rather than a card that was really necessary.

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    Uncommon white design

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    Decent price to performance ratio

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    Cards are in stock

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    Minor upgrade from 6600 XT

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    Increased cost at the wrong time

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    No RGB lighting, only white LEDs

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The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT rounds out our trifecta of refreshed RX 6000-series cards, joining the Radeon RX 6950 XT and Radeon RX 6750 XT. So does the RX 6650 XT rank among the best graphics cards, and where does it land in our GPU benchmarks hierarchy? Let’s find out.

Our test card comes courtesy of PowerColor, which sent its RX 6650 XT Hellhound Spectral White. There’s also a ‘normal’ Hellhound in the more traditional black/gray motif. Like the other 6×50 XT third-party cards we’ve looked at, the Hellhound comes with a factory overclock. Here’s the specs sheet for the PowerColor model alongside the reference designs from other competing GPUs. 

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GPU Specifications
Graphics Card RX 6650 XT PowerColor RX 6650 XT RX 6600 XT RTX 3060 Ti RTX 3060
Architecture Navi 23 Navi 23 Navi 23 GA104 GA106
Process Technology TSMC N7 TSMC N7 TSMC N7 Samsung 8N Samsung 8N
Transistors (Billion) 11.1 11.1 11.1 17.4 12
Die size (mm^2) 237 237 237 392. 5 276
SMs / CUs 32 32 32 38 28
GPU Cores 2048 2048 2048 4864 3584
Tensor Cores N/A N/A N/A 152 112
RT Cores 32 32 32 38 28
Boost Clock (MHz) 2689 2635 2589 1665 1777
VRAM Speed (Gbps) 18 18 16 14 15
VRAM (GB) 8 8 8 8 12
VRAM Bus Width 128 128 128 256 192
ROPs 64 64 64 80 48
TMUs 128 128 128 152 112
TFLOPS FP32 (Boost) 11 10. 8 10.6 16.2 12.7
TFLOPS FP16 (Tensor) N/A N/A N/A 65 (130) 51 (102)
Bandwidth (GBps) 288 288 256 448 360
TDP (watts) 180 180 160 220 170
Launch Date May-22 May-22 Aug-21 Dec-20 Feb-21
Launch Price $439 $399 $379 $399 $329
Online Price $439 $384 $359 $524 $399

Thanks to the factory overclock and the color scheme, the PowerColor RX 6650 XT costs a bit more than the reference model. The GPU boost clock is 54 MHz higher and 100 MHz higher than the RX 6600 XT, but that’s really about it. However, we don’t have a reference RX 6600 XT, and in our gaming test, the XFX RX 6600 XT we used averaged higher GPU clocks than the RX 6650 XT. But the higher clocked GDDR6 memory does come into play, at least.

Unlike the 6950 XT and 6750 XT, which will coexist alongside the 6900 XT and 6700 XT, AMD has stated that it’s phasing out the RX 6600 XT and replacing it with the RX 6650 XT. Right now, there’s about a $25 price premium for the new GPU, which is basically in line with AMD’s official MSRP, except you can find both the 6600 XT and 6650 XT for less than the recommended price.

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Graphics card pricing and availability have also improved a lot since 2021, and you can find links to online resellers for the above GPUs. The AMD cards are selling at or below MSRP, while the competing Nvidia GPUs are still marked up by 20–30%. Prices continue to drop, however, and we wouldn’t be surprised to see most if not all current-generation GPUs selling below their official MSRPs this fall — just in time for new cards to arrive.

We should also see RDNA 3 GPUs from AMD by the end of the year, but we expect both those and Nvidia’s upcoming Ada GPUs to target gaming enthusiasts and extreme performance first. Unfortunately, that means we likely won’t see an RX 7600 XT or RTX 4060 (or whatever they end up being called) until some time in 2023.

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Steam’s most popular GPU might surprise you

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The humble GeForce GTX 1650 is now sitting pretty at the top of Steam’s user survey list

By Michael Crider

Staff Writer, PCWorld Dec 5, 2022 7:04 am PST

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With tens of millions of users, most of which log in daily, Steam is the de facto platform home of PC gaming. That gives Valve’s storefront a massive amount of user data, which it occasionally shares with the rest of us via the monthly hardware survey. This month sees a new king of the world for graphics cards, and one that might just surprise you: the humble Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650.

Also, just to cover my bases, it might not surprise you if you’re a game industry analyst or just an obsessive follower of PC trends and data. Yes, you’re very impressive, please don’t tweet at me.

The GTX 1650 takes over from the previous leader, the GTX 1060, released way back in 2016. The new top of the GPU crop has a hair over 6 percent of the market, meaning a little more than one in twenty Steam users is rocking the budget hardware on their gaming PCs. The GTX 1060 is right behind at 5.58 percent of the userbase while the first graphics card from the more recent generations to hit the list is the laptop version of the RTX 3060, at 4.46 percent.

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The first mid-high card on the list is the RTX 3070, 2. 35 percent, with less than half the users of the GTX 1650. Other RTX 3000-series cards are struggling to gain ground at the top of the list, even though it’s dominated by Nvidia hardware — the first AMD entry is the generic and integrated “AMD Radeon Graphics” at number thirteen, 1.86 percent. The first discrete AMD GPU on the list is the Radeon RX 580, released in 2017.

The various configurations of the GTX 1650 were released between April 2019 and June 2020, making it a significant improvement over the GTX 1060 in calendar terms. The “16” series was a slight upgrade over the 1000 series, a budget alternative to the new RTX cards. But a 4GB GPU that launched around the $150 mark and still fetching $175-200 at street prices due to high demand isn’t what anyone thinks of when they consider the bombastic, high-powered desktops that feature in PC build guides on YouTube or Reddit.

Steam statistics don’t necessarily reflect every aspect of PC gaming, but they’re an excellent bellwether. The continued popularity of affordable, easy-to-find GPUs should be a humbling reminder to game developers and hardware sellers (and perhaps hoity-toity tech journalists like yours truly) that not everyone is reaching for 4K and 120FPS performance. It also contextualizes the user pushback against Nvidia’s recent massive price hikes, not to mention AMD and Intel’s decisions to price new cards a little lower and much lower, respectively.

Author: Michael Crider, Staff Writer

Michael is a former graphic designer who’s been building and tweaking desktop computers for longer than he cares to admit. His interests include folk music, football, science fiction, and salsa verde, in no particular order.

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