AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
vs
MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 100ME


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT has 2048 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.64 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 10.79 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 100ME has 1664 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.28 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.26 TFLOPS.

GPU

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 MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 100ME is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 13 execution units.
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT GPU MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 100ME
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Navi 23 KXT GPU Chip GM204-200-A1
RDNA 2 Architecture Maxwell 2.0
32 Streaming Multiprocessors 13
2048 Shader 1664
64 Render Output Units 56
128 Texture Units 104
32 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

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 MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 100ME has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
2.190 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
17.5 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
280 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT has a turbo clock of 2.635 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 100ME is 1.279 GHz.

2.055 GHz Base Clock 1.140 GHz
2.635 GHz Boost Clock 1.279 GHz
2.41 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.25 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

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 MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 100ME is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.

180 W TDP 145 W
-- TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 100ME is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
-- Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 100ME supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 1x DP v1.2
-- DVI Ports 2
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 100ME supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

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.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
Decode AV1 No
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 No

Dimensions

The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 100ME is -- and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

-- Length 277 mm
-- Height 140 mm
-- Width 45 mm
-- Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 920 g
PCIe 4.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT was released in Q2/2022.

The MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 100ME published in Q1/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.

-- Part-no --
Q2/2022 Release date Q1/2015
399 $ Launch Price 349 $
7 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
4673

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
1637

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
30 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
37 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
59 fps (avg)

The Last of Us Part 1

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.

2560x1440 (1440p)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
32 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
72 fps (avg)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
54 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
110 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
156 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

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.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
116428

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

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.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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