GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile vs GTX 980MX

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated268
Place by popularitynot in top-10069
Power efficiencyno data28.17
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGM204TU116
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)23 April 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16641024
Core clock speed1050 MHz1350 MHz
Boost clock speed1178 MHz1485 MHz
Number of transistors5,200 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)148 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate122.595.04
Floating-point processing power3.92 TFLOPS3.041 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs10464

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s192.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.140
CUDA5.27.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2016 23 April 2020
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 148 Watt 50 Watt

GTX 980MX has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GTX 1650 Ti Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 196% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 980MX and GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX
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