NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 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

2494 points

26% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

52 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

41 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

36 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

33 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2920 points

4376 points

49% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

379.89 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

367.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

37945 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

29848 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36447 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33463 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32737 points

41306 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36740 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

34611 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34464 points

38178 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1020 MHz

1126 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1125 MHz

1216 MHz

8% 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

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

160 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

40% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

35 W

371% significantly lower TDP

165 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

36 Gigapixels/s

77.82 Gigapixels/s

116% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

72 Gigatexels/s

155.6 Gigatexels/s

116% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.30 TFLOPS

4.98 TFLOPS

116% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

2048

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

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

211th of 586

177th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2014 September

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 980 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980 beats the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 980 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, 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 980 at 165 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 is better than the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q.