GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 vs Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking981not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-10091
Power efficiency2.28no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameStoney RidgeTU117
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)1 April 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$149

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 cores192896
Core clock speedno data1410 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz1590 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-45 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data89.04
Floating-point processing powerno data2.849 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data56

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 sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data229 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.0 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 data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.140
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2016 1 April 2020
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 75 Watt

R5 (Stoney Ridge) has 525% lower power consumption.

GTX 1650 GDDR6, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) and GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6
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