Component comparison

GeForce GTX 1650 vs RTX A500

GeForce GTX 1650 vs RTX A500 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce GTX 1650
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+16 GB/s)
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+64 bit)
  • + Energy efficiency (+6.2)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+578)
  • + Normalized score (+37.5)
B RTX A500
  • + Release year (+1)
  • + Memory clock (MHz) (+250 MHz)
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+10 W)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-4 nm)
  • + CUDA cores (+1024)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+4.95 TFLOPS)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce GTX 1650
Component B
RTX A500
Release year 2020 2021 (+1)
VRAM (GB) 4 GB 4 GB
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) 1500 MHz 1750 MHz (+250 MHz)
Bandwidth (GB/s) 128 GB/s (+16 GB/s) 112 GB/s
Memory bus (bit) 128 bit (+64 bit) 64 bit
TGP / TDP (W) 50 W 60 W (+10 W)
Lithography (nm) 12 nm 8 nm (-4 nm)
Transistors (M) 4,700M —
Die size (mm²) 200 mm² —
Base clock (MHz) — —
Boost clock (MHz) — 1537 MHz
CUDA cores 1,024 2,048 (+1024)
TMUs 64 64
ROPs 32 32
RT cores — 16
Tensor cores — 64
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 2.30 TFLOPS 7.25 TFLOPS (+4.95 TFLOPS)
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 53.28 GPixel/s —
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 93.24 GTexel/s —
Energy efficiency 26.4 (+6.2) 20.2
PassMark (overall) 7,116 (+578) 6,538
3DMark Time Spy 3,488 —
3DMark Fire Strike 9,313 —
Geekbench OpenCL 39,153 —
Geekbench Vulkan 36,248 —
Normalized score 53.3 (+37.5) 15.8

Only in component B

DLSS ReBAR

In both

CUDA

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce GTX 1650 RTX A500 Delta
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈

Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.

Based on the comparison: RTX A500 wins 6 of the comparable criteria. The choice depends on your use case.

🤔 How to choose

Universal advice for any use case.

  • Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
  • Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
  • Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).