NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 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

1966 points

585% significantly better overall score

287 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2920 points

434% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

546 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

379.89 points

679% significantly higher Blender score

48.76 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

37945 points

993% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

3469 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36447 points

673% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4712 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32737 points

662% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4293 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36740 points

707% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4552 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34464 points

620% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4783 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1020 MHz

1058 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

2 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

160 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

35 W

82% significantly lower TDP

64 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

36 Gigapixels/s

325% significantly higher pixel rate

8.46 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

72 Gigatexels/s

112% significantly higher texture rate

33.86 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

166% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% 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

210th of 586

383rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 650 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 650 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 650 has a slightly 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 650 at 64 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q is faster than the GeForce GTX 650.