GeForce GTX 1650 vs GeForce GTX 950

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 950, which comes with core clock speeds of 1024 MHz on the GPU, and 1652 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1650		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1650 should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 950 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1650		131072 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 25344 (24%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1650 will be much (more or less 69%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1650		83160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 34008 (69%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1650 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1650		47520 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14752 (45%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.