NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 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

8113 points

312% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

197 FPS

153 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

96 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

140 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

77 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2920 points

13651 points

367% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

379.89 points

3380.77 points

789% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

37945 points

149734 points

294% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36447 points

135064 points

270% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32737 points

99979 points

205% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36740 points

128209 points

248% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34464 points

121057 points

251% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1020 MHz

1500 MHz

47% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1125 MHz

1725 MHz

53% 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

528% significantly lower TDP

220 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

36 Gigapixels/s

165.6 Gigapixels/s

360% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

72 Gigatexels/s

317.4 Gigatexels/s

340% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.30 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

781% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

5888

475% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

187% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

210th of 586

53rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2020 September

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 3070 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 3070 has a significantly 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 3070 also has a significantly 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, the GeForce RTX 3070 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 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 RTX 3070 at 220 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3070 over the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q.