Switch GPU vs GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking300not rated
Place by popularity68not in top-100
Power efficiency25.32no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameTU117GM20B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 April 2020 (4 years ago)17 March 2017 (7 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 cores1024256
Core clock speed1380 MHz384 MHz
Boost clock speed1560 MHz768 MHz
Number of transistors4,700 million2,000 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm20 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate99.8412.29
Floating-point processing power3.195 TFLOPS0.3932 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs6416

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 x16IGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR6DDR4
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s25.6 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1401.1.126
CUDA7.55.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 April 2020 17 March 2017
Chip lithography 12 nm 20 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 15 Watt

GTX 1650 Mobile has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 66.7% more advanced lithography process.

Switch GPU, on the other hand, has 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile and Switch GPU. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile
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