GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs Radeon HD 7650M Rebrand

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated335
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data36.73
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameWhistlerTU117
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date28 March 2012 (12 years ago)23 April 2019 (5 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 cores4801024
Core clock speed485 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1125 MHz
Number of transistors716 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate11.6472.00
Floating-point processing power0.4656 TFLOPS2.304 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs2464

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1751 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s112.1 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.140
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 March 2012 23 April 2019
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 30 Watt

HD 7650M Rebrand has 50% lower power consumption.

GTX 1650 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7650M Rebrand and GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 7650M Rebrand
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