GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile vs Radeon R9 390

Place in performance ranking	221	282
Place by popularity	not in top-100	62
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	12.47	40.33
Architecture	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)	Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name	Grenada	N18P-G0, N18P-G61
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Design	reference	no data
Release date	18 June 2015 (9 years ago)	23 April 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$329	no data
Current price	$20 (0.1x MSRP)	$301

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

GTX 1650 Mobile has 223% better value for money than R9 390.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2560	1024
Core clock speed	no data	1380 MHz
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	1560 MHz
Number of transistors	6,200 million	4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	275 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	160.0	99.84
Floating-point performance	5,120 gflops	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon R9 390 and GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	no data	medium sized
Bus support	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	275 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin	no data
Bridgeless CrossFire	1	no data

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	GDDR5	GDDR5, GDDR6
High bandwidth memory (HBM)	-	no data
Maximum RAM amount	0 MB	4 GB
Memory bus width	512 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	12000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	384 GB/s	192.0 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 Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
Eyefinity	1	no data
Number of Eyefinity displays	6	no data
HDMI	+	no data
DisplayPort support	+	no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration	-	no data
CrossFire	1	no data
Enduro	-	no data
FreeSync	1	no data
HD3D	-	no data
PowerTune	+	no data
TrueAudio	+	no data
ZeroCore	-	no data
VCE	+	no data
DDMA audio	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	DirectX® 12	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.3	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
Vulkan	+	1.2.140
Mantle	+	no data
CUDA	no data	7.5

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

R9 390 23.09
+25.4%

GTX 1650 Mobile 18.42

Radeon R9 390 outperforms GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile by 25% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

R9 390 8921
+25.4%

GTX 1650 Mobile 7116

Radeon R9 390 outperforms GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile by 25% in Passmark.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

R9 390 12730
+36.7%

GTX 1650 Mobile 9313

Radeon R9 390 outperforms GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile by 37% in 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics.