PC World - USA (2020-01)

JANUARY 2020 PCWorld 57

Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX

1650 Super: The Radeon RX 580

is finally dead

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Super is the best budget graphics card you can buy for

1080p gaming, and the custom Asus ROG Strix model is loaded with extra. BY BRAD CHACOS

Nvidia’s $160 GeForce GTX

1650 Super had a super

bizarre launch.

Its still-available

predecessor, the $150 GTX 1650 (go.

pcworld.com/150g), skipped the vastly

improved Turing NVENC video encoder and

got pummeled in performance by AMD’s

Radeon RX 570, a much cheaper GPU, all to

let the card fit into the motherboards with no

extra power cabling required. With AMD’s

next-gen Radeon RX 5500 series looming

(go.pcworld.com/gt55), Nvidia revealed the

drastically turbocharged GTX 1650 Super—

but then failed to inform press of pricing or

provide drivers for launch day reviews. Those

are both extremely unusual moves, ones

mirrored in recent history only by Nvidia’s

IMAGE: BRAD CHACOS