GeForce GTX 1650 vs Radeon R7 250XE

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated266
Place by popularitynot in top-1003
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data39.36
Power efficiencyno data18.97
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameCape VerdeTU117
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date21 August 2014 (10 years ago)23 April 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$149

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores640896
Core clock speed860 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1665 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate34.4093.24
Floating-point processing power1.101 TFLOPS2.984 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs4056

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data229 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
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 amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s128.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI++

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 August 2014 23 April 2019
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 75 Watt

GTX 1650 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 6.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 250XE and GeForce GTX 1650. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R7 250XE
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