NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1057 points

2244 points

112% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

24 FPS

53 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

30 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

37 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

12 FPS

23 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2108 points

3627 points

72% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.72 points

445.31 points

162% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15058 points

40258 points

167% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17020 points

38315 points

125% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16857 points

35907 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16153 points

39842 points

146% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17923 points

37542 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

999 MHz

1485 MHz

48% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1139 MHz

1665 MHz

46% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

128.1 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

Identical

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.22 Gigapixels/s

53.28 Gigapixels/s

192% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.56 Gigatexels/s

93.24 Gigatexels/s

104% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

896

40% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

260th of 586

194th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

2019 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 1650 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1650 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1650 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1650 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q and the GeForce GTX 1650 have an identical TDP. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1650 over the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q.