NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 vs AMD Radeon RX 540

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 540 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 249.99
$ 25.99
$ 224.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2244 points
537% significantly better overall score
352 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
9 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS
26 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

37 FPS
29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

38315 points
260% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
10620 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39842 points
324% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
9390 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37542 points
297% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
9443 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1485 MHz
21% slightly higher core clock speed
1219 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz
36% slightly higher boost clock speed
1219 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
Identical
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

128.1 GB/s
33% slightly higher memory bandwidth
96 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

53.28 Gigapixels/s
173% significantly higher pixel rate
19.5 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

93.24 Gigatexels/s
139% significantly higher texture rate
39.01 Gigatexels/s

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
360th of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April
2017 April

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
4.5

GeForce GTX 1650 vs Radeon RX 540 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1650 beats the Radeon RX 540 in gaming performance.

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 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1650 over the Radeon RX 540.

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