NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 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 980

Price

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$ 319.99

$ 419.91 significantly less expensive

$ 739.90

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

22 %

24 %

9% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

51 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

50 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

41 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

35 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

33 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3620

4375

20% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

435.25

11% slightly higher Blender score

391.82

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

40258

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

29848

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

38315

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33463

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35907

41306

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39666

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

31828

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37364

40029

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1485 MHz

31% slightly higher core clock speed

1126 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

36% slightly higher boost clock speed

1216 MHz

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

128.1 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

120% significantly lower TDP

165 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

53.28 Gigapixels/s

77.82 Gigapixels/s

46% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

93.24 Gigatexels/s

155.6 Gigatexels/s

66% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.98 TFLOPS

4.98 TFLOPS

66% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896

2048

128% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

128% 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

96th of 363

86th of 363

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

April 2019

September 2014

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1650 vs GeForce GTX 980 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 980 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1650 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1650 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 GTX 1650 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 at 165 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 980 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1650.