XFX - SPEEDSTER SWFT210 AMD Radeon RX 6650XT Core 8GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 Gaming Graphics Card - Black

I mainly game on the PS5, but I was recently gifted a used gaming PC that was equipped with an old GeForce 1050. I wanted to check out Gamepass on PC to play some Xbox exclusives I missed, but I didn't have a great experience on newer titles. Since my PC is a secondary gaming platform, I didn't want to spend a lot of money. With the recent price drops on AMD GPUs, I thought this was a good time to upgrade. The XFX RX6650 was quite an upgrade! It increased my 3dMark score by over 3x. I'm able to play games I want like Hi-Fi Rush at 144 fps and Gears 5 at 80+ fps at 1440p resolution. Looks and plays great. I feel like I have a real gaming PC for the first time in 20+ years, lol. This particular card is great looking. Nice and understated without any obnoxious design or logos. Fits in great with my all black, non RBG case. I wish the bracket was black as well instead of silver, but it's fine. It stays cool in my case too (Corsair 400d), it only its 75 degrees under full load. The install was painless, Windows 11 picked it right up no problem. I have it connected to a 27" 1440p and 23" 1080p monitor on my desk, and I also hooked up my 65" HiSense TV for when I want to game on the couch. Overall, this is probably the best budget card you can by these days. Highly recommended!

This gpu is a perfect budget card. This is my first pc I’ve built, and everything has run smoothly so far. I play overwatch and it runs 1080p med/high settings at a steady 300 fps. I’m gonna try vr on it and see how that goes but I’ve heard good things about vr on it. I’ve had a little trouble with the drivers sometimes but next update and it’s fixed. Awesome value for the price

I love this card. It plays all my games great in 1080p and 1440p resolution. The graphics are gorgeous and everything runs smoothly. I have it paired with an AMD Ryzen 5800x and 32 GB of memory in a new build using an Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS motherboard. Graphics cards are still somewhat expensive compared to the past and I used to be able to upgrade at a $150 price point. Right now, this is probably one of the best values out there. I love that it is also very power efficient. I prefer a graphics card that doesn't use up a lot of power at the wall socket. As an aside, I did initially have a lot of trouble with driver time-outs and games crashing. I did a lot of investigation (and cursing because I thought it was the new graphics card fault), and eventually discovered it was the memory! Even though the original memory passed MemTest86 and I never had any problems running non-game applications. The memory was the last thing that I suspected. But after playing around with different bios settings and replacing my power supply, I figured I would have nothing to lose by swapping out the memory. I replaced the memory with another pair and now everything is rock solid.

I recently upgraded from an older Radeon RX590 graphics card. I'm not a hardcore gamer, but I do like to play Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and Forza Horizon 5. Forza worked fine on my RX590, but Flight Simulator tended to be a bit choppy. I also do some video editing using Magix Vegas Pro 21, which can use the video card to accelerate video rendering. I was not looking to spend $500+ for a video card, so I was happy to find this one for a reasonable price. With my new RX6650XT, Forza is still about the same, but Flight Simulator is noticeably much improved. The new card made a big difference for Flight Simulator. Video editing in Vegas hasn't changed much, but it does seem a bit faster. Overall, I happy with this video card.

I top around 90-140 FPS in most of my games, with ray tracing either at low settings, or turned off. I don’t think anyone cares about ray tracing enough so I’d definitely recommend this card. Better than the 6600xt, and it’s not even that much more. Definitely a win in my book.