NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 vs AMD Radeon R7 450

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 450 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 249.99
$ 149.99
$ 100.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2244 points
655% significantly better overall score
297 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

53 FPS
44 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS
26 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

37 FPS
31 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS
21 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

38315 points
258% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
10702 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35907 points
267% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
9779 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39842 points
296% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
10058 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37542 points
342% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
8478 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1485 MHz
41% slightly higher core clock speed
1050 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
100% significantly more memory
2 GiB

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

128.1 GB/s
77% significantly higher memory bandwidth
72 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
65 W
15% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

53.28 Gigapixels/s
259% significantly higher pixel rate
14.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

93.24 Gigatexels/s
214% significantly higher texture rate
29.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896
75% significantly more shading units
512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

56
75% significantly more texture mapping units
32

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
100% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

194th of 586
378th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April
2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.3

GeForce GTX 1650 vs Radeon R7 450 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1650 beats the Radeon R7 450 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1650 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1650 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon R7 450 has a slightly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1650 at 75 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 GTX 1650 over the Radeon R7 450.

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