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

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

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2207 points

6815 points

208% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

167 FPS

120 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

29 FPS

80 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS

118 FPS

83 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

22 FPS

63 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3132 points

11700 points

273% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

441.58 points

3000.82 points

579% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

41158 points

128321 points

211% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40474 points

120183 points

196% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

36968 points

95490 points

158% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39947 points

112303 points

181% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38942 points

115945 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1035 MHz

1410 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1200 MHz

1665 MHz

38% 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

448 GB/s

180% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

35 W

471% significantly lower TDP

200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.4 Gigapixels/s

133.2 Gigapixels/s

246% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

76.8 Gigatexels/s

253.1 Gigatexels/s

229% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.46 TFLOPS

16.20 TFLOPS

559% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

4864

374% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

137% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

150% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

195th of 586

71st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 April

2020 December

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 Ti comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti beats the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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 RTX 3060 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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 3060 Ti at 200 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti over the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q.