NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, 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

8233 points

318% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

191 FPS

148 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

95 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

139 FPS

107 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

75 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2920 points

3149 points

7% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

379.89 points

3690.41 points

871% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36740 points

126840 points

245% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34464 points

120026 points

248% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1020 MHz

2280 MHz

123% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1125 MHz

2497 MHz

121% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

448 GB/s

180% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

35 W

314% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

36 Gigapixels/s

119.9 Gigapixels/s

233% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

72 Gigatexels/s

299.6 Gigatexels/s

316% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

3840

274% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

87% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

214th of 598

51st of 598

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

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 5060 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5060 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5060 has a significantly 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 5060 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.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5060 at 145 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5060 is better than the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q.