NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 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 980

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2207 points

2494 points

13% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

52 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

29 FPS

41 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS

36 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

33 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3132 points

4376 points

39% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

441.58 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

367.38 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

41158 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

29848 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40474 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33463 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

36968 points

41306 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39947 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

34611 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38942 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

38178 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1035 MHz

1126 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1200 MHz

1216 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

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

224.4 GB/s

40% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

35 W

371% significantly lower TDP

165 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.4 Gigapixels/s

77.82 Gigapixels/s

102% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

76.8 Gigatexels/s

155.6 Gigatexels/s

102% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.46 TFLOPS

4.98 TFLOPS

102% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

2048

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

195th of 586

177th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 April

2014 September

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 980 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 980 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 980 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, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 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 980 at 165 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 GeForce GTX 980 over the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q.