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GeForce GTX 1650 vs Radeon R9 290

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1650 features a GPU clock speed of 1485 MHz, and the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 2001 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 896 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 290, which comes with clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1650 75 Watts
Radeon R9 290 300 Watts
Difference: 225 Watts (300%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 290 should in theory perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1650 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 290 320000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1650 131072 MB/sec
Difference: 188928 (144%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 is quite a bit (approximately 54%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1650. (explain)

Radeon R9 290 128000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1650 83160 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 44840 (54%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 290 is a small bit (approximately 8%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1650, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 290 51200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1650 47520 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3680 (8%)

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

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GeForce GTX 1650

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1650 Radeon R9 290
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 2019 November 2013
Code Name TU117-300-A1 Hawaii PRO
Memory 4096 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1485 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 8004 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 131072 MB/sec 320000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 83160 Mtexels/sec 128000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 47520 Mpixels/sec 51200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 896 2560
Texture Mapping Units 56 160
Render Output Units 32 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 512-bit
Fab Process 12 nm 28 nm
Transistors 4700 million 6200 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1650

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Radeon R9 290

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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