Quadro2 MXR Low Profile vs GeForce GTX 1650 TU106

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)	Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name	TU106	NV11 B2
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	18 June 2020 (4 years ago)	25 July 2000 (24 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 cores	896	no data
Core clock speed	1410 MHz	200 MHz
Boost clock speed	1590 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	10,800 million	20 million
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	90 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	89.04	0.8
Floating-point processing power	2.849 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	4
TMUs	56	4
Tensor Cores	112	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	14	no data

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	229 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None

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 type	GDDR6	SDR
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	32 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	183 MHz
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	2.928 GB/s

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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x VGA
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	7.0
Shader Model	6.5	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.2
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.2	N/A
CUDA	7.5	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	18 June 2020	25 July 2000
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	32 MB
Chip lithography	12 nm	180 nm

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