NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 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 3060

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2207 points

5276 points

139% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

126 FPS

79 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

29 FPS

61 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS

88 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

48 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3132 points

8766 points

179% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

441.58 points

2317.27 points

424% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

41158 points

99213 points

141% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40474 points

96416 points

138% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

36968 points

74845 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39947 points

89510 points

124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38942 points

86221 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1035 MHz

1320 MHz

27% slightly 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

12 GiB

200% significantly more memory

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

360 GB/s

125% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

35 W

385% significantly lower TDP

170 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.4 Gigapixels/s

85.3 Gigapixels/s

122% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

76.8 Gigatexels/s

199 Gigatexels/s

159% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.46 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

418% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

3584

250% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

75% 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

195th of 586

98th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 April

2021 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 3060 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3060 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 GeForce RTX 3060 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 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 RTX 3060 at 170 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 3060 over the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q.