A premium card for your setup.
What’s in the box:
- 1x ASUS ROG STRIX AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
- 1x Speed setup guide
- 1x Collectible ASUS ROG card
- 2x Velcro ties
- 1x Thank you card
Features:
- Axial-tech Fan Design features a smaller fan hub that facilitates longer blades and a barrier ring that increases downward air pressure.
- Dual ball fan bearings can last up to twice as long as sleeve bearing designs.
- Super Alloy Power II includes premium alloy chokes, solid polymer capacitors, and an array of high-current power stages.
- The dual BIOS switch lets you toggle between Quiet and Performance BIOS profiles sans software.
- Auto-Extreme Technology uses automation to enhance reliability.
- A vented backplate prevents hot air from recirculating through the cooling array.
Specifications:
- Max Screen Resolution: 7680 x 4320 Pixels
- Memory Speed: 4000 MHz
- Graphics Coprocessor: AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
- Chipset Brand: AMD
- Graphics Card Ram Size: 8 GB
- Item Weight: 1.9 pounds
- Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 5.3 x 2.3 inches
- Item Dimensions LxWxH: 11.1 x 5.3 x 2.3 inches
Introduction:
The ASUS ROG STRIX AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT card is a beautiful, sleek graphics card packed with features. This card has amazing lighting that can be synced to match the rest of your build which is a bonus. It boasts exceptional cooling, great speeds, and performance that compete with the big boys.
ASUS spared no expense when it comes to this card.
Performance:
This gorgeous card was made to fit in with the premium ASUS cards in looks as well as performance. It is beautiful with its metal accents, and greyscale colours and is lit by Chassis LEDs.
The Radeon RX6650 XT card comes with slightly higher clocks than the 6600 XT.
The card can offer excellent performance for gaming in 1080p and will handle Visual settings pretty well in 1440p resolutions.
This graphics card has just over 11 billion transistors, 32 compute units, 64 render output units, 128 texture units, and 2048 stream processors.
It is based on the RDNA2 architecture. Its boost clock may reach a maximum of 2694 MHz while its game clock can reach a maximum of 2543 MHz while in overclocking mode. The graphics card also utilizes PCI Express 4.0 and has 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus width.
Cooling is one of the best features of this card, as it keeps the temperatures low without overheating your system. According to ASUS:
“Dual Axial-tech fans efficiently blast air through a large heatsink to keep the GPU chilled, and top-shelf capacitors, chokes, and MOSFETs deliver the perfect amount of clean power.”
The card does this by featuring half-width barrier rings in both fans to increase the airflow through the cooling array.
When your PC is running under a lighter load the fans shut off to help reduce the noise. This happens at about 52 degrees.
The components that make up this card are of premium quality as one would expect from ASUS with Premium alloy chokes, Solid Polymer capacitors, and an array of high-current power stages present.
This card also has a feature called Aura Sync which allows customized lighting to be set up. This allows you to sync the RGB to music or temperature or a large number of static options and patterns.
Benchmarks:
These are the specs that were used to test the benchmarks of the ASUS ROG Strix AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT:
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
- Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix B550-E Gaming AMD Ryzen ATX Motherboard
- Cooler: ASUS ROG Strix LC 360 RGB all-in-one liquid CPU cooler with Aura Sync
- RAM: Kingston HyperX Predator DDr4 RGB 16GB x 2 3200MHz CL16 Ram
- Nvme: Adata XPG SX8200 512GB NVMe PCIe 3.0 M.2 2280 Solid State Drive
- PSU: ASUS ROG-STRIX-1000G ROG Strix Gaming 1000W 80 Plus Gold Certified Fully Modular Black Desktop Power Supply
- Case: ASUS ROG Strix Helios RGB ATX Mid-tower Gaming Case
- OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Professional x64
3D Mark:
Since the release of the Matrix and the introduction of Futuremark’s bullet time-inspired benchmarks, 3DMark has become a standard benchmark. The ideal tool to check the performance of your system, particularly the CPU and GPU, is 3DMark. You can perform a search on your GPU to determine whether it is comparable to systems with similar hardware.
We used 4 versions of 3D Mark and they are as follows:
3D Mark Fire Strike:
A DirectX 11 showcase benchmark for contemporary gaming PCs. Other DirectX 11 benchmarks and games cannot compare to its ambitious real-time graphics, which are displayed with a level of depth and complexity. Two graphics tests, a physics test, and a combined CPU/GPU stress test are all included in Fire Strike.
3D Mark Port Royal:
3DMark Port Royal is the world’s first real-time ray tracing benchmark for gamers. It shows you how well your PC handles ray-tracing effects in real time. Use Port Royal to benchmark graphics cards that support Microsoft DirectX Raytracing. Compare Port Royal benchmark scores to see how overclocking affects ray-tracing performance. Find your PC’s performance limits with custom benchmark settings and detailed hardware monitoring charts.
3D Mark Speed Way:
3DMark Speed Way is a DirectX 12 Ultimate benchmark for ray tracing capable gaming PCs running Windows 10 and 11. Speed Way’s engine is assembled to demonstrate the new features DirectX 12 Ultimate brings to raytraced gaming.
3D Time Spy:
Time Spy is a DirectX 12 benchmark test for gaming PCs running Windows 10. With its pure DirectX 12 engine, built from the ground up to support new API features like asynchronous computing, explicit multi-adapter, and multi-threading, Time Spy is the ideal benchmark for testing the DirectX 12 performance of modern graphics cards.
Additionally, we used Far Cry 5 to test this card in a real-game scenario and it excelled.
MGR Gaming’s Conclusions:
Its awesome performance is complemented by ASUS’ visually appealing quality, making it even more pleasing to the eye.
If you’re a gamer who needs excellent performance at 1080p resolution, this card is ideal for you. Or If you’re looking for an AMD graphics card that is comparable to the GeForce RTX 3060 or want to assemble a gaming machine at a reasonable cost.
The ASUS ROG AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT is a great graphics card that will run your game in high or Ultra visual settings with ease.
This card is excellent in all the ways that matter.
Also, ASUS has other brands competing in the entry-level graphics card market, such as the Dual and Phoenix cards, along with their TUF range.
