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Not to add fuel to pointlessly tribal Nvidia vs. AMD “debates”, but the prospect of willfully missing out on DLSS does make the RX 6650 XT’s non-upscaled benchmark wins seem somewhat less exciting. And it doesn’t even go both ways – DLSS is only usable on GeForce RTX graphics cards, but any modern GPU can run FSR, including Nvidia ones. Call of Duty: Vanguard ran at 181 FPS, though AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution was enabled in this benchmark. You can learn more about this FPS-boosting feature in our blog in the read more section below. Elsewhere, it’s the Radeon that comes out ahead, even if it doesn’t hit max quality/60fps in every game at this resolution. Case in point, Total War: Three Kingdoms, in which the RX 6650 XT scored 46fps (on Ultra) to the RTX 3060’s 43fps. In Ultra-quality Watch Dogs Legion, the RX 6650 XT crept ahead once again, with 54fps beating the 46fps posted by the RTX 3060. And it managed wider leads too, especially with results like its 134fps in Forza Horizon 4 (Ultra quality), 63fps in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Ultra High quality), and 74fps in Metro Exodus (Ultra quality). TORX Fan 4.0: A masterpiece of teamwork, fan blades work in pairs to create unprecedented levels of focused air pressure. That said, almost any mention of FSR invites comparison with its Nvidia equivalent, DLSS. And despite FSR's many improvements over the past year, DLSS is still better. It’s just as capable of big FPS boosts as FSR, but its more intelligent upscaling tends to produce sharper, less processed-looking frames, with custom anti-aliasing that’s just about always sharper than what even FSR 2.0 manages.
The margin remained the same at 1440p, where the 6650 XT was 27% faster than the RTX 3060, though the gap to the 6600 XT did increase, now 9% which is quite a significant increase compared to what was seen at 1080p. Using standard, rasterised lighting and shadow effects, Watch Dogs Legion provided yet another victory over the RTX 3060: using the Ultra quality preset, the Radeon GPU averaged 74fps, besting the 3060’s 60fps. But, it also served to re-demonstrate the RX 6650 XT’s occasional ray tracing weakness. With the same Ultra setting but Medium-quality ray tracing effects applied, the RX 6650 XT sagged to a choppy 36fps, whereas the RTX 3060 held firmer with 41fps. What does make a difference is that the RX 6600 series is down near the MSRP... not amazing news for a year-old product, but it's amazing given what those last 12 months have looked like for PC gamers and prospective GPU buyers. Shopping Shortcuts: The Radeon RX 6650 XT is a high-end graphics card by AMD, launched on May 10th, 2022. Built on the 7 nm process, and based on the Navi 23 graphics processor, in its Navi 23 KXT variant, the card supports DirectX 12 Ultimate. This ensures that all modern games will run on Radeon RX 6650 XT. Additionally, the DirectX 12 Ultimate capability guarantees support for hardware-raytracing, variable-rate shading and more, in upcoming video games. The Navi 23 graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 237 mm² and 11,060 million transistors. It features 2048 shading units, 128 texture mapping units, and 64 ROPs. The card also has 32 raytracing acceleration cores. AMD has paired 8 GB GDDR6 memory with the Radeon RX 6650 XT, which are connected using a 128-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 2055 MHz, which can be boosted up to 2635 MHz, memory is running at 2190 MHz (17.5 Gbps effective).
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The RX 6650 XT feels very much an evolution of the 6600 XT. So much so that it's what the RX 6600 XT should have been originally.
The MSI Gaming X is a very quiet card indeed and with that under-load temperature of 61°C, which is a testament to the quality of MSI’s cooler design. The Navi 23 GPU isn't exactly a demanding one, but still it's good to see this level of performance from a dual fan design. A huge triple slot cooler would be overkill. Mystic Light gives you complete control of the RGB lighting for MSI devices and compatible RGB products. That margin was slightly reduced at 1440p to 7%, but that meant it was still 22% faster than the RTX 3060, a good win for AMD. It doesn't take a whole lot of risks with the design, and is fairly straight forward aesthetically, but it has enough character that it'll fit in well with your rig. The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT is available now in the US, UK, and Australia, as well as other regions around the world.AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution is available on select games and requires developer integration. See https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/radeon-software-fidelityfx-super-resolution for a list of supported games. AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution is “game dependent” and is supported on the following AMD products: AMD Radeon™ RX 6000, RX 5000, RX 500, RX Vega Series graphics cards & all AMD Ryzen™ Processors with Radeon™ Graphics, as long as the minimum requirements of the game are met. AMD does not provide technical or warranty support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution enablement on other vendors' graphics cards. GD-187.
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