Radeon RX 6650M XT and RTX A500 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 6650M XT

RTX A500

Architecture

RDNA 2 (2020−2022)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Navi 23

GA107

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2022

November 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Boost clock speed

2162 MHz

1770 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

11,060 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

60 Watt

Texture fill rate

309.2

113.3

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

18000 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

112.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

DirectX

12.0 Ultimate (12_2)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.7

Vulkan

1.2

1.3