AMD ’s xx50 cards have always been defined by mid-range prices with performance that knocks on the door of high-end graphics cards – especially when overclocked. After taking the time to fully test the RDNA 2.0 graphics card inside the RX 6650 XT, we can say without a doubt that it continues the trend. The RX 6650 XT is much more expensive than the RX 5600 XT as it costs a whopping $ 399. Compare this to the RX 5600 XT, which came originally at a price of $ 279. Meanwhile, the NVIDIA closest equivalent card is the RTX 3060 which costs $ 329.
Spec for spec, this RX 6650 XT leapfrogs its direct predecessor, the RX 5600 XT, by boasting 36.8 % more fps. The RX 6650 XT has 8 GB RAM compared to the RX 5600 XT 's 6 GB video memory.
In our synthetic benchmarks, the RX 6650 XT blows past the RX 5600 XT and, amazingly, even the RX 5700 as well. Compared to its NVIDIA 's closest rival, RTX 3060, the RX 6650 XT was 16.4 % faster.
Fortunately, gaming performance was quite impressive. The RX 6650 XT consistently delivers great frame rate increases over the RX 5600 XT and it really justifies an upgrade. For 1080p Full HD, we were able to play Forspoken, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Atomic Heart, Halo Infinite, Assassin's Creed Valhalla at 61 fps to 68 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 64 fps.
For 1440p Quad HD, we were able to play Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Avengers, Cyberpunk 2077, Total War: Warhammer III, Metro Exodus at 63 fps to 64 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 63 fps. For 2160p 4K, we were able to play Death Stranding, Far Cry 5, Resident Evil 4, F1 2019, Apex Legends at 62 fps to 67 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 64 fps.
NVIDIA ’s xx60 cards have always been defined by entry-level prices with performance that knocks on the door of mid-range graphics cards – especially when overclocked. After taking the time to fully test the Turing graphics card inside the GTX 1660 Ti, we can say without a doubt that it continues the trend. Spec for spec, this GTX 1660 Ti leapfrogs its direct predecessor, the GTX 1060 6GB, by boasting 43.7 % more fps.
In our synthetic benchmarks, the GTX 1660 Ti blows past the GTX 1060 6GB and, amazingly, even the GTX 1070 as well. Fortunately, gaming performance was quite impressive. The GTX 1660 Ti consistently delivers great frame rate increases over the GTX 1060 6GB and it really justifies an upgrade.
For 1080p Full HD, we were able to play Borderlands 3, Baldur's Gate 3, Armored Core VI, F1 22, Anthem at 62 fps to 66 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 63 fps. For 1440p Quad HD, we were able to play GreedFall, Hitman 2, Death Stranding, F1 2019, Spider-Man Remastered at 64 fps to 70 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 68 fps.
For 2160p 4K, we were able to play Overwatch 2, Valorant at 66 fps to 139 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 102 fps.
| RX 6650 XT | GTX 1660 Ti | |
|---|---|---|
| Outputs | 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a | 1x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort |
| Power Connectors | 1x 8-pin | 1x 8-pin |
| Slot Width | Dual-slot | Dual-slot |
| TDP | 176 W | 120 W |
| RX 6650 XT | GTX 1660 Ti | |
|---|---|---|
| Boost Clock | 2635 MHz | 1770 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 2190 MHz 17.5 Gbps effective | 1500 MHz 12000 MHz effective |
| RX 6650 XT | GTX 1660 Ti | |
|---|---|---|
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Generation | Navi II (RX 6000) | GeForce 1600 |
| Production | Active | Released |
| Release Date | May 10th, 2022 | Feb 22, 2019 |
| RX 6650 XT | GTX 1660 Ti | |
|---|---|---|
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12.0 (12_1) |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 1.2 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | 6.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.1.96 |
| RX 6650 XT | GTX 1660 Ti | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 | Turing |
| Die Size | 237 mm² | 284 mm² |
| GPU Name | Navi 23 | TU116 |
| Process Size | 7 nm | 12 nm |
| Transistors | 11,060 million | 6,600 million |
| RX 6650 XT | GTX 1660 Ti | |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth | 280.3 GB/s | 288.0 GB/s |
| Memory Bus | 128 bit | 192 bit |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 6144 MB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| RX 6650 XT | GTX 1660 Ti | |
|---|---|---|
| ROPs | 64 | 48 |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 1536 |
| TMUs | 128 | 96 |
| RX 6650 XT | GTX 1660 Ti | |
|---|---|---|
| FP16 (half) performance | 21.59 TFLOPS (2:1) | 10,875 GFLOPS (2:1) |
| FP32 (float) performance | 10.79 TFLOPS | 5,437 GFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) performance | 674.6 GFLOPS (1:16) | 169.9 GFLOPS (1:32) |
| Pixel Rate | 168.6 GPixel/s | 84.96 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 337.3 GTexel/s | 169.9 GTexel/s |
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