The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super Review, Feat. Zotac Gaming: Bringing Balance To 1080p
by Ryan Smith on December 20, 2019 9:00 AM ESTThe Test
As Zotac’s GeForce GTX 1650 Super card is built to NVIDIA’s reference specifications, there is no need to dial it down or otherwise adjust the card to represent a reference card. As such, the card has been tested as-is.
Meanwhile, as with last week’s Radeon RX 5500 XT review, as the card is primarily focused on 1080p gaming and clearly underpowered for anything more than that, this is what our benchmark results will focus on.
As for drivers, we’re using the latest drivers from both NVIDIA and AMD for their cards. For NVIDIA cards, this is 441.41, and for AMD cards it’s AMD’s Radeon Software 19.12.2.
| CPU: | Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.0GHz |
| Motherboard: | ASRock Z390 Taichi |
| Power Supply: | Corsair AX1200i |
| Hard Disk: | Phison E12 PCIe NVMe SSD (960GB) |
| Memory: | G.Skill Trident Z RGB DDR4-3600 2 x 16GB (17-18-18-38) |
| Case: | NZXT Phantom 630 Windowed Edition |
| Monitor: | Asus PQ321 |
| Video Cards: | AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 4GB AMD Radeon RX 580 AMD Radeon RX 570 AMD Radeon RX 460 4GB AMD Radeon R9 380 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti |
| Video Drivers: | NVIDIA Release 441.41 NVIDIA Release 441.07 AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 19.12.2 |
| OS: | Windows 10 Pro (1903) |
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Ryan Smith - Monday, December 23, 2019 - link
Yeah, it's a ratio test, and both scores fluctuate depending on things like memory bandwidth and fill rates. In this case lower bandwidth cards tend to do better, since they aren't as likely to be bottlenecked elsewhere (whereas the 2080 Ti has bandwidth to spare for days).It's imperfect, to say the least. But people have been asking for the data, so here it is.
sheh - Monday, December 23, 2019 - link
That's strange.I thought, maybe, faster cards don't bother compressing since they don't need it and it uses more power. But other than that, I thought it's just a question of the supported algorithms.
harobikes333 - Sunday, December 22, 2019 - link
Considering these current GPUs seem pretty darn similar. My pick between NVIDIA & AMD would the AMD card simply for the fact that NVIDIA needs competition in the future.sheh - Monday, December 23, 2019 - link
That's strange.I thought, maybe, faster cards don't bother compressing since they don't need it and it uses more power. But other than that, I thought it's just a question of the supported algorithms.
sheh - Monday, December 23, 2019 - link
(Ignore the above. AnandTech's commenting system bugs...)sharathc - Wednesday, December 25, 2019 - link
See the pic from a distance, it looks like owl 🦉jmunjr - Monday, January 6, 2020 - link
One good thing about the SUPER variant of the 1650 is it adds the Turing version of NVENC which will boost performance for live streaming and Plex transcoding. The base 1650 used the Volta NVENC for some reason.