GeForce GTX 965M 4 GB vs GTX 1650 Max-Q

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking334not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency37.20no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameTU117GM204
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date23 April 2019 (5 years ago)9 January 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores10241024
Core clock speed930 MHz935 MHz
Boost clock speed1125 MHz1150 MHz
Number of transistors4,700 million5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Wattno data
Texture fill rate72.0073.60
Floating-point processing power2.304 TFLOPS2.355 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs6464

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1751 MHz1253 MHz
Memory bandwidth112.1 GB/s80.19 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1401.3
CUDA7.55.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 April 2019 9 January 2015
Chip lithography 12 nm 28 nm

GTX 1650 Max-Q has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

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