58 PCWorld JANUARY 2020REVIEWS ASUS ROG STRIX GEFORCE GTX 1650 SUPER
attempt to bury reviews of the original
lackluster GTX 1650. Because of that, we
went so far as to recommend avoiding the
new card (go.pcworld.com/avod) until
reviews surfaced.
Even weirder? The GeForce GTX 1650
Super kicks ass. Nvidia’s latest graphics card
doesn’t drastically redefine the sub-$200
market, but for the first time in years, AMD’s
aging Polaris-based GPUs are no longer the
budget gaming champions. The Radeon RX
580 is finally dead.
Let’s dig into the $170 Asus ROG Strix
GeForce GTX 1650 Super.SUPER SPECS, FEATURES,
AND PRICE
Nvidia completely overhauled the Super-fied
version of the GTX 1650. It’s got a new GPU, a
new video encoder, and even blazing-fast
new GDDR6 memory. Rather than reinvent
the wheel, here’s what we said when Nvidia
first revealed the GTX 1650 Super (go.
pcworld.com/60gf) alongside the GeForce
GTX 1660 Super about a month ago:
“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,GEFORCE GTX 1650’S
REFERENCE SPECS
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 4,096 MB GDDR6
Memory Interface 128-bit
Total Memory Bandwidth 192 GB/s
Texture Rate (Bilinear) 138 GigaTexels/s
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 ̊ C