GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile Refresh vs Radeon RX 540

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking539not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.08no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameLexaTU117B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date11 November 2017 (7 years ago)15 April 2020 (4 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 cores5121024
Core clock speed1124 MHz1380 MHz
Boost clock speed1219 MHz1515 MHz
Number of transistors2,200 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate39.0196.96
Floating-point processing power1.248 TFLOPS3.103 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs3264

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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s192.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

Supported technologies

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

FreeSync+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.140
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 November 2017 15 April 2020
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm

GTX 1650 Mobile Refresh has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 540 and GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 540
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