NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 and AMD Radeon RX 550 (Laptop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

AMD Radeon RX 550 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 35% higher core clock speed: 1485 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 41% higher boost clock speed: 1665 MHz vs 1183 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 7000 MHz

Launch date	30 April 2019 vs 18 April 2017
Core clock speed	1485 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Boost clock speed	1665 MHz vs 1183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 14 nm
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 7000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 550 (Laptop)

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650	AMD Radeon RX 550 (Laptop)
PassMark - G3D Mark	7881
PassMark - G2D Mark	564
Geekbench - OpenCL	39165
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	134.765
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1316.075
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	8.799
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	94.915
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	573.418
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	10959
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	10959
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	305

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650	AMD Radeon RX 550 (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 4.0
Code name	TU107	Lexa
Launch date	30 April 2019	18 April 2017
Launch price (MSRP)	$179	$79.99
Place in performance rating	376	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Price now		$75
Value for money (0-100)		56.41
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1665 MHz	1183 MHz
Core clock speed	1485 MHz	1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	14 nm
Floating-point performance		1.2 TFLOPs
Pipelines		640
Texture fill rate		51.48 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		50 Watt
Transistor count		2,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort count	1
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		large
Recommended system power (PSU)		400 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.0	12
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL		2.0
Vulkan
Memory
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz	7000 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		112 GB/s
Memory bus width		128 bit
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 2.0
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)