NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 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

1966 points

38% slightly better overall score

1419 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

29 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

22 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

20 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2920 points

27% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2293 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

379.89 points

126% significantly higher Blender score

167.72 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

37945 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

17784 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36447 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21072 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32737 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

22380 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36740 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19796 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34464 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

20845 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1020 MHz

1127 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1125 MHz

1178 MHz

4% slightly 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

160 GB/s

42% slightly higher memory bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

35 W

242% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

36 Gigapixels/s

37.7 Gigapixels/s

4% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

72 Gigatexels/s

75.39 Gigatexels/s

4% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.30 TFLOPS

2.41 TFLOPS

4% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

Identical

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

211th of 586

239th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2015 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 960 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 960 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 960 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 960 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q over the GeForce GTX 960.