NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 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 RTX 3050

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2207 points

3468 points

57% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

82 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

29 FPS

41 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS

59 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

31 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3132 points

6224 points

98% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

441.58 points

1484.67 points

236% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

41158 points

72998 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40474 points

71667 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

36968 points

56109 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39947 points

63483 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38942 points

62406 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1035 MHz

1552 MHz

49% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1200 MHz

1777 MHz

48% significantly 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

Identical

128 Bit

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

271% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.4 Gigapixels/s

56.86 Gigapixels/s

48% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

76.8 Gigatexels/s

142.2 Gigatexels/s

85% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.46 TFLOPS

9.10 TFLOPS

270% 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

195th of 586

139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 April

2022 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 Ti Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3050 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 beats the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3050 has a significantly 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 GeForce RTX 3050 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3050 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 at 130 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 3050 over the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q.