NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 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

6815 points

246% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

167 FPS

123 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

80 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

118 FPS

86 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

63 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2920 points

11700 points

300% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

379.89 points

3000.82 points

689% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

37945 points

128321 points

238% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36447 points

120183 points

229% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32737 points

95490 points

191% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36740 points

112303 points

205% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34464 points

115945 points

236% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1020 MHz

1410 MHz

38% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1125 MHz

1665 MHz

47% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

448 GB/s

180% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

35 W

471% significantly lower TDP

200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

36 Gigapixels/s

133.2 Gigapixels/s

269% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

72 Gigatexels/s

253.1 Gigatexels/s

251% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.30 TFLOPS

16.20 TFLOPS

603% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

4864

374% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

137% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

150% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

211th of 586

71st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2020 December

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 3060 Ti benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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 3060 Ti also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 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 RTX 3060 Ti at 200 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti over the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q.