NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 4.3x more pipelines: 3840 vs 896
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 90% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13253 vs 6968
  • Around 53% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 589 vs 384
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 vs 23 April 2019
Pipelines 3840 vs 896
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 12 nm
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 13253 vs 6968
PassMark - G2D Mark 589 vs 384

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (Laptop)

  • Around 71% higher core clock speed: 1395 MHz vs 817 MHz
  • Around 22% higher boost clock speed: 1560 MHz vs 1282 MHz
  • 5.3x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
  • Around 89% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 3438 vs 1821
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1395 MHz vs 817 MHz
Boost clock speed 1560 MHz vs 1282 MHz
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3438 vs 1821

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (Laptop)

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
13253
6968
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
589
384
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
1821
3438
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (Laptop)
PassMark - G3D Mark 13253 6968
PassMark - G2D Mark 589 384
Geekbench - OpenCL 78982
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 330.903
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3461.767
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 26.167
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 143.293
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 979.608
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 21278
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8913
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8054
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 21278
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8913
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8054
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1821 3438

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (Laptop)

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Turing
Code name GA106 TU117
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 23 April 2019
Place in performance rating 144 277
Type Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1282 MHz 1560 MHz
Core clock speed 817 MHz 1395 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 153.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 9.846 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 9.846 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3840 896
Pixel fill rate 61.54 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 153.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt
Transistor count 12000 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent
DisplayPort support
G-SYNC support
HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16
Laptop size large medium sized
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.1
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 128 bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective 8000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5

Technologies

GPU Boost
VR Ready