NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2207 points

52% significantly better overall score

1446 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

29 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

22 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3132 points

37% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2280 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

441.58 points

113% significantly higher Blender score

206.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

41158 points

125% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

18285 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40474 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

20012 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

36968 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21753 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39947 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19440 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38942 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

19602 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1035 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

924 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1200 MHz

15% slightly higher boost clock speed

1038 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

160 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

120.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

35 W

114% significantly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.4 Gigapixels/s

49.82 Gigapixels/s

29% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

76.8 Gigatexels/s

83.04 Gigatexels/s

8% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.46 TFLOPS

2.66 TFLOPS

8% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

1280

25% slightly 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

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

195th of 586

238th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 April

2014 October

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 Ti Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 970M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 970M in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q 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 GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970M at 75 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q over the GeForce GTX 970M.