NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 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

3375 points

50% significantly better overall score

2244 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

61 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

53 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

30 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

37 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

23 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5999 points

65% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3627 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

445.31 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

46955 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

40258 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46870 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

38315 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

35907 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

39842 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

37542 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

1485 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

1665 MHz

13% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

150% significantly higher memory bandwidth

128.1 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

110 W

75 W

46% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

93.95 Gigapixels/s

76% significantly higher pixel rate

53.28 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

151% significantly higher texture rate

93.24 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.52 TFLOPS

151% significantly better floating point performance

2.98 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

185% significantly more shading units

896

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

185% significantly 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

141st of 586

194th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2019 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 1650 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q beats the GeForce GTX 1650 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1650 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1650 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1650 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q at 110 W. 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 1080 Max-Q over the GeForce GTX 1650.