NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1966 points

4302 points

118% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

104 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

53 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

76 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

41 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

379.89 points

2581.07 points

579% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36740 points

75551 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34464 points

75827 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1020 MHz

1455 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1125 MHz

1755 MHz

56% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

96 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

42% much lower TDP

50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

36 Gigapixels/s

56.16 Gigapixels/s

56% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

72 Gigatexels/s

140.4 Gigatexels/s

95% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.30 TFLOPS

8.99 TFLOPS

290% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

2560

150% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

210th of 586

117th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2023 January

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 4050 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop 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 RTX 4050 Laptop 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.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q has a much lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop at 50 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 4050 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q.