GeForce GTX 1650
Let’s first talk about the GeForce GTX 1650 and what it is since we haven’t introduced the GPU on our website before. The GeForce GTX 1650 was launched at the end of April 2019 with an MSRP of $149.99. The neat thing about this GPU is that it is based on the most current Turing architecture. In this way, it benefits from the gaming performance improvements of the Turing architecture. However, it has one major caveat. It does not have RT Cores (Ray Tracing) or Tensor Cores on board.
What this means is that it is a lot slower at NVIDIA Ray Tracing. It still does support NVIDIA Ray Tracing because NVIDIA opened it up to the GTX series, but it doesn’t have hardware acceleration thus Ray Tracing will be really slow on this video card. Take also into account the price point and low-end specs, this is not the video card to dabble in Ray Tracing. Also, and this is rather devastating, it uses the previous generation Volta media encoding core and not the newer Turing encoder.
However, it has some rather interesting benefits such as it doesn’t require an external power connector because the TDP is only 75W. Your PCIe slot provides 75W of power for the video card and that’s all it requires. Therefore, this can operate in a low power or power limited situation. Let’s go through the specs, we’ve created a GPU comparison table below.
Specs
In the table you can see that this is a newer GPU core called TU117, this is different from the GTX 1660 and GTX 1660 Ti TU116 core. It is all Turing and all on 12nm FFN for efficiency. It has 896 CUDA Cores, 32 ROPs and 56 TMUs. As you can see this is quite cut down from the original release GeForce GTX 1660 and GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. It has a boost clock of 1665MHz.
It also is quite reduced in the memory department. It rides on a 128-bit memory bus with 4GB of GDDR5 at 8GHz. This provides only 128GB/sec of memory bandwidth. With only 4GB capacity that means it will be limited in higher resolutions as well. The TDP though of 75W is quite exciting and the MSRP at $149.99 is a great price. It supports HDMI, DisplayPort and Dual-Link DVI for plenty of connectivity.