- About the GTX 1650..
- About the GIGABYTE GTX 1650 OC 4GB...
- How its tested
- Futuremark Benchmark
- OpenGL Benchmarks
- Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
- Rise of the Tomb Raider
- Hitman
- DOOM
- GPU Computation Benchmark
- Folding at Home and LuxMark OpenCL Benchmark
- SuperPosition Benchmark
- Power Draw and Fan Noise Levels
- GPU Cooling and Manual OC Impressions
- Conclusion
- Online Purchase Links
Disclosure: This GeForce GTX 1650 4G OC is loaned by Gigabyte.
The strange and confusing affair with NVIDIA’s PR…
The embargo for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 was lifted a couple of days ago. But none of the tech media or its AIC’s PRs had the updated driver to work with the graphics card. Usually, the tech media get the graphics card and the drivers before the launch. It wasn’t the case with the GTX 1650. It is unfortunate, but NVIDIA did not give any access driver access to anybody until the time of launch. Having reviews out at the time of lifting embargos are important because that’s when review sites can get the relevant content on time. Its also when people are hyped towards making an upgrade.
This time, NVIDIA decided not to have any drivers available. This shares the same concern When NVIDIA launched the RTX series whose review embargos was scheduled well after its retail availability. The initial days of RTX were frozen cold because of lack of RTX games and pricing placement for the RTX 2080 Ti.
Disclosure: I have written about a newspaper article write being contracted or employed by Nvidia for promotional purpose without any disclosure. Readers should be aware and exercise caution from whom and where they take advice and information.
I do have the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1650 4G OC to review.
Reference Card Specifications
GPU Engine Specs:
NVIDIA CUDA Cores 896 Giga Rays/s NA Base Clock (MHz) 1485 Boost Clock (MHz) 1665 Memory Specs:
Memory Speed 8 Gbps Standard Memory Config 4GB GDDR5 Memory Interface Width 128-bit Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 128 Technology Support:
Real-Time Ray Tracing No NVIDIA GeForce Experience Yes NVIDIA® Ansel Yes NVIDIA® Highlights Yes NVIDIA® G-SYNC™ Compatible Yes Game Ready Drivers Yes Microsoft® DirectX® 12 API, Vulkan API, OpenGL 4.6 Yes DisplayPort 1.4a, HDMI 2.0b Yes HDCP 2.2 Yes NVIDIA® GPU Boost™ Yes VR Ready No Designed for USB Type-C™ and VirtualLink™(4) No NVIDIA Encoder (NVENC) Yes (Volta) Display Support:Maximum Digital Resolution( 7680×4320@120Hz Standard Display Connectors HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI-D Multi-Monitor Yes HDCP Yes Graphics Card Dimensions:
Height 4.37″ Length 5.1″ Width 2-Slot Thermal and Power Specs:
Maximum GPU Temperature (in C) 92 Graphics Card Power (W) 75 Recommended System Power (W) 300W Supplementary Power Connectors None GTX 1650
GTX 1660
GTX 1050
CUDA Cores 896 1408 640 ROPs 32 48 32 Core Clock 1485 MHz 1530 MHz 1354MHz Boost Clock 1665 MHz 1785 MHz 1455MHz Memory Clock 8Gbps GDDR5 8Gbps GDDR5 7Gbps GDDR5 Memory Bus Width 128-bit 192-bit 128-bit VRAM 4GB 6GB 2GB Single Precision Perf. 3 TFLOPS 5 TFLOPS 1.9 TFLOPS TDP 75W 120W 75W GPU TU117 TU116 GP107 Transistor Count 4.7B 6.6B 3.3B Architecture Turing Turing Pascal
The story with the GTX 16-series so far…
NVIDIA released the entry-level 1080p performance GeForce GTX 1650 based on the Turing architecture. Turing architectures are manufactured by TSMC based on 14nm FFN process. The GTX 1660 and GTX 1660 Ti rolled out well after RTX card line ups. These cards used the TU116 core. The GTX-16 series do not have RT Cores (Ray Tracing) and Tensor cores. These are meant to fill the space below the RTX 20 series cards and succeed the GTX 10 series based on the Pascal architecture. Very recently, Nvidia rolled out updates which enable some level of Ray-Tracing on GTX graphics cards. Skipping Turing NVENC encoder for Volta NVENC encoder is another strange move.
Reduced specs. Reduced power draw.
The GeForce GTX 1650 used the smaller TU116 cores. The card succeeds the GTX 1050 and stays below the RTX 1660. Naturally, there are reduced cores, ROPS, VRAM, memory bandwidth. But it also keeps well under 75-watt editions, maybe with some variants having 6-pin PCIe for much higher factory overclocked GTX 1650 variants.
