DECEMBER 2019 PCWorld 33Nvidia’s reviewer’s guide says. “In other
words, you get an instant upgrade in image
quality without having to bump up your
streaming rate.”
EposVox, an excellent source for
streaming reviews and information, tested
Turing NVENC in RTX GPUs (go.pcworld.
com/nvnc) and called it “beyond
impressive.” The enhancements boost the
GTX 1650 Super’s total power up to at least
100W, however, so it can’t be powered
solely by the motherboard.
Nvidia held back on pricing information
on the 1650 until closer to the card’s
November 22 launch, perhaps playing coy to
give the company room to counter-punch
potential AMD pricing shenanigans around
the Radeon RX 5500 series, after the
“jebaited” controversy (go.pcworld.com/
jebt) around the Radeon RX 5700 series
release (go.pcworld.com/am57). But the
price seems to have settled at $160 (go.
pcworld.com/sths).
Nvidia won’t release its own Founders
Edition graphics cards for the new GTX
16-series Super GPUs. Instead, you’ll find
custom models by board partners like Asus,
EVGA, and Gigabyte on store shelves. As a
reminder, the GTX 16-series GPUs do not
include dedicated real-time ray-tracing
hardware like their Turing GPU-based
siblings, the pricier GeForce RTX 20-series.