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

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

19% slightly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

32 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

25 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

22 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

21 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2920 points

2939 points

0.65% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

379.89 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

264.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

37945 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

21520 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36447 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

23785 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32737 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

26093 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36740 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

24516 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34464 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

23881 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1020 MHz

1038 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1125 MHz

1127 MHz

0.18% 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

160.4 GB/s

0.25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

35 W

185% significantly lower TDP

100 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

36 Gigapixels/s

72.13 Gigapixels/s

100% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

72 Gigatexels/s

108.2 Gigatexels/s

50% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.30 TFLOPS

3.46 TFLOPS

50% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

1536

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% 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

229th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2014 October

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 980M benchmarks

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

The GeForce GTX 980M 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 980M 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, 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 980M at 100 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 980M.