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).