The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 2 architecture, which has 32 streaming multiprocessors.
The graphics card Gainward GeForce GTX 970 is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 13 execution units.
Memory
Memory
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
Gainward GeForce GTX 970
Memory Size
8 GB
4 GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Clock
2.190 GHz
1.753 GHz
Memory Speed
17.5 Gbps
7.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
280 GB/s
224 GB/s
Memory Interface
128 bit
256 bit
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The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.190 GHz clocks.
The Gainward GeForce GTX 970 has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
Gainward GeForce GTX 970
Base Clock
2.055 GHz
1.051 GHz
Boost Clock
2.635 GHz
1.178 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
2.41 GHz
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Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT has a turbo clock of 2.635 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Gainward GeForce GTX 970 is 1.178 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
Gainward GeForce GTX 970
TDP
180 W
145 W
Tjunction max
100 °C
98 °C
PCIe-Power
1 x 8-Pin
2 x 6-Pin
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The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 100 °C.
The Gainward GeForce GTX 970 is equipped with a 2 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
Gainward GeForce GTX 970
Fan-Type
Axial
Radial
Fan 1
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1 x 65 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB
0 dB
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT are cooled with a Air cooling.
The Gainward GeForce GTX 970 is cooled by a Air cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
Gainward GeForce GTX 970
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.3
2.2
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.1
1x HDMI 2.0
DisplayPort
3x DP 1.4a
3x DP 1.2
DVI
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1
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The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.
The Gainward GeForce GTX 970 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.
Featureset
Featureset
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
Gainward GeForce GTX 970
Max. resolution
7680x4320
4096x2160
DirectX
12_2 (Ultimate)
12_1
Raytracing
Yes
No
DLSS / FSR
Yes
No
LED
No LED lighting
No LED lighting
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The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).
The Gainward GeForce GTX 970 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
Gainward GeForce GTX 970
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
Decode / Encode
No
VP8
Decode / Encode
Decode
VP9
Decode / Encode
No
AV1
Decode
No
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This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.
Dimensions
Dimensions
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
Gainward GeForce GTX 970
Length
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247 mm
Height
--
112 mm
Width (Slots)
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2 Slots
SFF-Ready
No
No
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The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.
The width of the Gainward GeForce GTX 970 is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.
3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.
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The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.
Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.
The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.
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