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Guru3D.com » Review » Zotac GeForce GTX 1650 Gaming Review 4

Zotac GeForce GTX 1650 Gaming Review 4

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/23/2019 04:31 PM [ 36 comment(s) ]

We review the Zotac GeForce GTX 1650 Gaming OC edition, this incredibly small GeForce GTX 1650 has been fabbed to be a budget-friendly product, with an extremely small and compact size. We're talking less than 15cm here.  The single fan product is energy friendly as well, there's no need for even a power connector as it feeds from the 75 Watt PCIe power slot. 

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Fox2232
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Posts: 11354
Posted on: 04/23/2019 04:46 PM
Took just a moment to check performance graphs. Even in nVidia titles it is quite slower than RX-570. And with that price tag...
RX-570 starts at $125 for small (1-fan) card, which would be competitor for this particular model. And at $130 for regular size 2-fan card.
That shines bad light to GTX 1650 with its price tag. Especially since in some games RX-570 has around 50% fps advantage.

I do remember when RX-480 came along and some reviewers complained about 75W taken from PCIe, and I do remember that hateful bandwagon.
And from Power Draw there comes that other issue...
While you can tweak cheaper RX 570 to eat 75W and it will likely keep performance advantage in most of the games, you do not get to OC GTX 1650 anywhere near RX-570 performance level... And even attempting to overcome power limits would be ill advised action.

Edit: And If we ignore existence of AMD's cards, Within nVidia's ranks 1660 makes so much more sense. Performance per Dollar spent on graphics card is quite better there. And if one would be making whole new system, then performance per Dollar spent on entire system would make 1650 look much worse.

BReal85
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Posts: 456
Posted on: 04/23/2019 04:50 PM
Thanks for the quick release, Hilbert!

To be honest, that performance is close to pathetic given the $150+ price tag. It has +10% performance in a fresh NV title (Metro Exodus) compared to the 1050 Ti.... I believe - as I wrote days earlier - the 1650 is the black sheep of the 20 (16) series with the RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti in terms of price/performance. I would honestly buy only the 1660 and 1660 Ti from the NV line.

I can't imagine how green eyed a person has to be to defend this card. Please, forget the "only 75W TDP" sentence.

HWgeek
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Posts: 441
Posted on: 04/23/2019 05:15 PM
Thanks for the review- so soon after driver released.
Looking at the AVG performance of GTX 1650 -IMO the 0.1%/1% numbers would be even worse compared to RX570- and this means "Not smooth gaming experience".

Kaarme
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Posts: 2214
Posted on: 04/23/2019 05:37 PM
I'm happy that little thing isn't beating my dusty old 390. I'd feel bad waiting to see how Navi turns out if it had.

waltc3
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Posts: 1175
Posted on: 04/23/2019 06:28 PM
Good gosh, what is nVidia trying to do? Pricing a 128-bit bus product against AMD's 256-bit bus RX-570 is insane--ideally this is a $50-$75 GPU. Not to forget here's *another* nVidia GPU that cannot do SLI. The 570 can do Crossfire/D3d12 multi-GPU--but of course, not the comparably priced nVidia GPU. Again. nVidia doesn't seem favorably disposed to selling many/any of these.

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