NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 480

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 480 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

2142 points

8% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

33 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

45 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2920 points

4130 points

41% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

379.89 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

349.71 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36447 points

44522 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32737 points

48947 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36740 points

42732 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34464 points

49182 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1020 MHz

1266 MHz

24% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1125 MHz

1266 MHz

12% slightly 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

224 GB/s

40% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

35 W

328% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

36 Gigapixels/s

40.51 Gigapixels/s

12% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

72 Gigatexels/s

182.3 Gigatexels/s

153% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.30 TFLOPS

5.83 TFLOPS

153% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

2304

125% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

125% significantly 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

199th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 480 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 480 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 480 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 Radeon RX 480 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 480 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the Radeon RX 480 at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 480 over the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q.