AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT vs NVIDIA RTX A5500. Specifications, performance, tests

Comparison of basic technical data of graphics cards AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT and NVIDIA RTX A5500, chip, information processing units.

• Architecture
  RDNA 2 Ampere
• Based on
  AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT -
• Compute Units
  32 -
• Execution Units
  32 80
• GPU Chip
  Navi 23 KXT GA102
• L1 Cache
  128 KB 128 KB
• L2 Cache
  2 MB 6 MB
• L3 Cache
  32 MB -
• Ray Accelerators
  32 -
• Render Output Units
  64 96
• Shader
  2048 10240
• Texture Units
  128 320

Video memory capacity, type, bus width and bandwidth describe different properties. These values alone do not determine graphics performance.

• Infinity Cache
  32 MB -
• Memory Bandwidth
  280 GB/s 768 GB/s
• Memory Bus
  128 bit 384 bit
• Memory Clock
  2190 MHz 2000 MHz
• Memory Data Rate
  17.5 Gbps 16 Gbps
• Memory Size
  8 GB 24 GB
• Memory Type
  GDDR6 GDDR6

Published GPU clock frequencies describe different operating modes. Clock speed alone does not determine graphics performance.

• Base Clock
  2055 MHz 1170 MHz
• Boost Clock
  2635 MHz 1695 MHz
• Game Clock
  2410 MHz -

Graphics card power limits and recommended system power supply describe different specifications.

• System Power Supply
  Conflicting source values: 450 W (PSU recommendation) | 500 W (System power requirement) -
• TDP
  176 W 230 W
• Typical Board Power
  180 W -

Connectivity and connections.

• DisplayPort Ports
  3 × DisplayPort 1.4a 4 × DisplayPort 1.4a
• HDMI Ports
  1 × HDMI 2.1 -
• Max. Displays
  4 -
• PCIe Interface
  PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
• Power Connectors
  1x8-Pin 1x 8-pin

Technical data that is used to its full potential in computer games.

• DirectX
  12.2 12_2
• Max. resolution
  7680 × 4320 7680 x 4320 at 60 Hz
• OpenCL
  2.1 3.0
• OpenGL
  4.6 4.6
• Shader Model
  6.5 6.6
• Vulkan
  1.3 1.3

Built-in support for video and image compression standards.

• AV1
  Decode -
• h264
  Decode / Encode -
• h265 / HEVC
  Decode / Encode -
• VP8
  Decode / Encode -
• VP9
  Decode / Encode -

The difference in size, weight and slot of the compared devices

• Length
  - 267 mm
• Slot Size
  - Dual-slot
• Width
  - 112 mm

Comparison of interfaces and release dates for GPU NVIDIA RTX A5500 and AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT.

• Process Technology
  7 nm 8 nm
• Release date
  2022-05-10 -
• Verification scope
  Explicit manufacturer fields refreshed; other original historical fields retained, not all reverified. Partial composite conflicts are preserved. -

• FP16 (theoretical)
  21.59 TFLOPS 34.71 TFLOPS
• FP32 (theoretical)
  10.79 TFLOPS 34.71 TFLOPS
• FP64 (theoretical)
  0.6746 TFLOPS 1,085 GFLOPS
• Pixel Rate
  168.6 GPixel/s 162.7 GPixel/s
• Texture Rate
  337.3 GTexel/s 542.4 GTexel/s