NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	216	215
Place by popularity	no data	1
Value for money	22.27	16.38
Architecture	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)	Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name	Polaris 20	TU117
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	11 April 2018 (5 years old)	23 April 2019 (4 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$149
Current price	$191	$313 (2.1x MSRP)

Technical specs

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	2304	896
Core clock speed	1257 MHz	1485 MHz
Boost clock speed	1340 MHz	1665 MHz
Number of transistors	5,700 million	4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	185 Watt	75 Watt
Texture fill rate	193.0	93.24
Floating-point performance	6,175 gflops	no data

Size and 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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	241 mm	229 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated VRAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz	8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	256.0 GB/s	128.0 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

Video outputs and ports

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	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI	+	+

API support

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.4	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131
CUDA	no data	7.5

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

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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.

GeForce GTX 1650 outperforms Radeon RX 580X by 1% in our combined benchmark results.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	no data	71
1440p	no data	38
4K	no data	23

Advantages and disadvantages

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Performance rating	19.78	19.91
Recency	11 April 2018	23 April 2019
Memory bus width	256	128
Pipelines / CUDA cores	2304	896
Memory bandwidth	256	128
Chip lithography	14 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	185 Watt	75 Watt

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