NVIDIA has announced the most affordable member of its Turing family yet, the GeForce GTX 1650. The new card starts at $149 (RM615) in the US. Thanks to its 75W TDP rating, the GeForce GTX 1650 is a great choice for gamers looking to build a power-efficient PC.
The new GeForce GTX 1650 uses the TU117 Turing GPU, smallest yet in the Turing family. It features a total of 896 CUDA cores, 56 TMUs, and 32 ROPs. The card comes with 4GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 8 Gbps with a 128GB/s bandwidth.
Unlike the more expensive GTX 16-series GPUs, the budget-friendly NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 does not support RTX real-time raytracing. However, it does offer some other Turing features such as support for concurrent floating point and integer operations, unified cache architecture with larger L1 cache, as well as adaptive shading. As mentioned above, the card consumes less than 75 watts of power at maximum load. Most GTX 1650 cards will not even require an additional power connector.
Custom GeForce GTX 1650 cards from brands such as MSI, ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte, Palit, Zotac, and more have already been announced. NVIDIA has also confirmed that more than 80 new notebooks featuring the GTX 1650 and GTX 1660 Ti GPUs will be arriving in the near future.