NVIDIA has announced a new budget graphics card, the
GeForce GTX 1650. It is a replacement for the previous GTX 950 and the
subsequent GTX 1050 GPU and comes in at US$ 149. Like the GTX 1660 and 1660 Ti
before it, the GTX 1650 is based on NVIDIA's new Turing architecture and uses
the TU117 GPU. NVIDIA claims 2x performance compared to the GTX 950 and 1.7x
over the GTX 1050.
Compared to the 1408 CUDA cores on the 1660, the
1650 has 896. It's clocked at 1485MHz for the base frequency and 1665MHz for
the boost frequency. The 1650 comes outfitted with 128-bit 4GB GDDR5 memory
with 8Gbps memory speed and 128GB/s memory bandwidth.
Being a non-RTX card, the 1650 does not support
hardware accelerated ray tracing but does support other Turing features, such
as variable rate shading, enhanced NVENC encoder, enhanced memory compression,
and more. 1650 graphics will be available starting today from OEMs such as
ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit,
PNY and Zotac.
NVIDIA also announced a record 80+ new laptops
coming to market with the new GTX 1650 and the GTX 1660 Ti GPU. These will be
available from manufacturers such as Acer, ASUS, Dell and Alienware, Gigabyte,
HP, Lenovo, MSI, and Samsung over the coming months.
