NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

20 %

26 %

30% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

63 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

32 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

45 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

25 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

393.75

1150.76

192% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

37945

58544

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36447

55123

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32737

47251

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

35983

51252

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34135

53107

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1020 MHz

1238 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1125 MHz

1500 MHz

33% 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

192 GB/s

20% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

35 W

114% significantly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

36 Gigapixels/s

6% slightly higher pixel rate

33.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

72 Gigatexels/s

6% slightly higher texture rate

67.65 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.30 TFLOPS

4.33 TFLOPS

87% 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

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

126th of 549

91st of 549

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

April 2019

May 2021

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 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 RTX 3050 Laptop also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q.