32 PCWorld DECEMBER 2019NEWS GEFORCE GTX 1660 SUPER
Slotting in below that is the new GeForce
GTX 1650 Super, which launched on
November 22. The original $150 GTX 1650
(which is also sticking around; go.pcworld.
com/gf50) offers minimal appeal unless you’re
using it to upgrade a prebuilt non-gaming PC.
It runs slower than the rival Radeon RX 570,
and it costs more money—but unlike AMD’s
GPU, many models of the original GTX 1650
don’t need extra power cabling (they draw all
their power from their motherboard slot).
The GTX 1650 Super won’t be able to pull
off the same trick. In addition to a GDDR6
memory upgrade, Nvidia’s overhauling the
core GPU at the heart of its entry-level GPU.
While the original GTX 1650 uses Nvidia’s
smallest TU117 GPU, the new GTX 1650
Super uses a cut-down version of the larger
TU116 GPU found in the GTX 1660 series. It
should be significantly more powerful, with
1,280 CUDA cores (compared to the
original’s 896), higher clock speeds, the
aforementioned 4GB of upgraded GDDR6
memory over a 192-bit connection, and well,
just more everything.
It also includes Nvidia’s newer and much
more efficient “Turing” Encoder, after the
company received criticism over saddling the
original GTX 1650 with its last-gen encoder.
“Turing NVENC is up to 15 percent more
efficient—requiring 15 percent less bitrate at
the same quality level—than previous-
generation Pascal NVENC when encoding
with H.264, and 25 percent for HEVC,”Graphics Processing Clusters 3
Texture Processing Clusters 10
Streaming Multiprocessors 20
CUDA Cores (single precision) 1,280
Tensor Cores N/A
RT Cores N/A
Texture Units 80
ROP Units 32
Base Clock 1,530 MHz
Boost Clock 1,725 MHz
Memory Clock 6,000 MHz
Memory Data Rate 12 Gbps
L2 Cache Size 1,024 K
Total Video Memory 128-bit
Total Memory Bandwidth 192 GB/sec
Texture Rate (Bilinear) 138 Gigatexels/
sec
Fabrication Process 12 nm FFN
Transistor Count 6.6 Billion
Connectors Varies By
Manufacturer
Form Factor Varies By
Manufacturer
Power Connectors Varies By
Manufacturer
Recommended Power Supply 350 Watts
Total Graphics power (TGP) 100 Watts
Thermal Threshold 90 ̊ CGEFORCE GTX 1650 SUPER’S
HARDWARE CONFIGURATION