GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q is the efficiency variant of the Turing generation's step-up entry chip — 1,024 shader cores in a 50 W envelope, built for slim machines that wanted a little more than the baseline. The catalog matches 66 models to the chip family and carries 1080p benchmarks in 133 games for this record. This guide covers the variant's 2026 standing and what its laptops deliver.

Where the GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q sits in 2026

This record scores 44.1 and ranks 144th of 341 scored mobile GPUs — the middle of the table. The immediate neighborhood is a Max-Q convention: the GTX 1060 Max-Q (45.2) and GTX 1060 with Max-Q Design (44.6) above, the Quadro T2000 Max-Q (44) just below, and the variant's own sibling GTX 1650 Max-Q (43.6) two places down, with NVIDIA's MX450 (44.7) wedged between. The company it keeps defines the tier: these are the efficient dedicated GPUs of the 2019–2020 era, now performing as a coherent band slightly above the strongest integrated graphics of the time.

What the chip brings

The essentials follow the family: 1,024 CUDA cores on a 12 nm process, 4 GB of GDDR6 memory and about 2.5 TFLOPS of theoretical throughput, here in a 50 W thermal design. As a GTX-branded Turing part there is no ray tracing and no DLSS — the feature set is rasterization plus CUDA. Public benchmarks place it around 6,600 PassMark points, a 3DMark Time Spy graphics score near 3,100 and Fire Strike near 8,600: a modest step over the non-Ti Max-Q card, as the extra shaders predict.

FPS in games at 1080p

The esports catalog runs cleanly: CS:GO and Overwatch at 240 FPS on the high preset, FIFA 21 at 183, GTA V and PUBG at 140, Valorant at 120 rising to 181 on medium, Fortnite at 85 rising to 121 and Counter-Strike 2 at 90. The middle of the catalog rewards the medium preset: Apex Legends posts 84 rising to 91, Diablo 4 77 rising to 86, Shadow of the Tomb Raider 75 rising to 95, Escape from Tarkov 60 rising to 90 and Far Cry 5 56 rising to 67. The heaviest ports set the boundary: Elden Ring 56, Red Dead Redemption 2 35 rising to 54, Hogwarts Legacy 32 rising to 42, Cyberpunk 2077 30 rising to 36 and The Last of Us 25 rising to 31.

Laptops that carry it

The name-matched roster of 66 models spans the mainstream ladder: HP Victus 15 gaming units at $656–$1,015, Acer Aspire 7 all-rounders at $553–$650, Nitro 5 machines around $737, and the thin-and-light pair the variant suits best — Acer Swift X and Lenovo Slim 7 Pro X at $470–$840. As with every Max-Q name-match, the roster represents the chip family's laptop pool rather than variant-specific machines. Roster medians: gaming index 59, energy efficiency 75.6, 42 games clearing recommended settings.

Bottom line

The GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q is a modest chip with a clear identity: enough dedicated performance for esports at full speed and older AAA titles at medium settings, at a power level slim chassis can host without thermal drama. In 2026 it is fairly priced into the $470–$840 used machines it rides in, and its ranking — level with the era's other efficient dedicated GPUs, ahead of ordinary integrated graphics — has held up better than its marketing did. Buy it inside a thin-and-light you want anyway; do not buy a thick gaming laptop around it.