Conclusion

The consequence of such actions is performance that's lacklustre at FHD and mediocre at QHD...

The Turing architecture at the beating heart of a new breed of Nvidia GPUs is impressive. Offering more IPC than ever before plus forward-looking features on premium cards, Turing does look good when implemented properly.

GeForce GTX 1650 takes Turing and cleaves it into the TU117 die composed of 896 cores that produce a peak 3 TFLOPS of compute. A restricted back-end offers 128GB/s of bandwidth via a 4GB framebuffer. Such cuts are savage when compared to the next GPU up, GTX 1660.

The consequence of such actions is performance that's lacklustre at FHD and mediocre at QHD. Nvidia could have got away with the $149 pricing if it wasn't for the rival Radeon RX 570. Thirstier and based on an older architecture, its muscular design is oftentimes much faster... all for the same outlay.

Any card makes sense is priced appropriately, so we reckon the MSRP ought to be no more than $119, with the best partner cards at $149. Pitched like this, GTX 1650 would tick most boxes.

Coming on to the review card, EVGA's GeForce GTX 1650 XC Gaming, even its lofty core speeds can't save it from the £165 retail price. Nvidia and its partners need to take at least 20 per cent, perhaps 25 per cent, off the GTX 1650's pricing for it to become a mainstream champ.

The Good		The Bad
Energy efficient Decent OC in place Bundled game		Poor value Card is unnecessarily tall Can't maintain FHD60

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£40 more than a 570 is a bit of a miss. This need to come in at £100.

I'm more concerned with it not even managing to beat a 1060, as a rule of thumb it used to be that newer cards from Nvidia would be roughly equal in performance to the next tier up from previous gen cards, you'd get 680 performance in a 770, a 960 would match those, and a 1050 would do the same.

It seems Nvidia have broken that trend as the 1650 isn't even close to 1060 performance, me thinks they've cut to deeply. :(

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I'm more concerned with it not even managing to beat a 1060, as a rule of thumb it used to be that newer cards from Nvidia would be roughly equal in performance to the next tier up from previous gen cards, you'd get 680 performance in a 770, a 960 would match those, and a 1050 would do the same.

It seems Nvidia have broken that trend as the 1650 isn't even close to 1060 performance, me thinks they've cut to deeply. :(

Ah, but as long as they can match the 1060 on price it's good right? ;)