GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile vs Radeon R9 280X2

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated269
Place by popularitynot in top-10069
Power efficiencyno data28.19
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTahitiTU116
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno data (2024 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 cores20481024
Core clock speed950 MHz1350 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHz1485 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)375 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate128.095.04
Floating-point processing power4.096 TFLOPS3.041 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs12864

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
Length315 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors3x 8-pinno 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 amount3 GB4 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 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 Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.5 (5.1)6.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.1 (1.2)1.2
Vulkan1.2.1701.2.140
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 375 Watt 50 Watt

GTX 1650 Ti Mobile has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 650% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 280X2 and GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 280X2 is a desktop card while GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R9 280X2
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile
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