What is the good in ZOTAC gaming GeForce GTX 1650 OC 4GB GDDR6 128? Based on the new NVIDIA Turing architecture, it’s packed with GDDR6 ultra-fast memory. You get 4 GB of VRAM on this ZOTAC graphics card and the weight of the full set up is 0.02 lb. The Zotac GTX 1650 OC packs 896 CUDA Cores with a base clock of 1485MHz and the boost clock of 1695MHz. It features 4GB VRAM GDDR5 rated at 8 Gbps having a bus width of 128-bit using 128.1 GB/s bandwidth. Get details in ZOTAC gaming GeForce GTX 1650 OC 4GB GDDR6 128-bit gaming graphics card super compact review.
In the box
Following is provided inside the box:
- 1x Graphics Card
- 1x Quick Installation Guide
- 1x Driver Pamphlet
- 1x ZOTAC Products Brochure
- 1x Case Badge
Pros & Cons
Pros
- 4K ready
- Super Compact
- Sunflower Heatsink
- PCIe Bus Powered
- 90mm Single Fan
- FireStorm Utility
- Runs cool, even under stress tests.
Cons
- Overclocking beyond the out-of-the-box settings returned no real gains.
- Benchmark results below expectations for $149 price.
Specs – ZOTAC gaming GeForce GTX 1650 OC 4GB GDDR6 128-bit gaming graphics card super compact
- GPUGeForce® GTX 1650
- Engine ClockBoost: 1620 MHz
- Memory Clock12 Gbps
- CUDA cores896
- Video Memory4GB GDDR6
- Memory Bus128-bit
- PCI Express3.0
- Multi Display CapabilityTriple Display
- Recommended Power Supply350W
- Display OutputsDisplayPort 1.4
HDMI 2.0b
Dual Link DVI-D - HDCP SupportYes
- CoolingSingle Fan
- Slot SizeDual Slot
- Power Consumption75W
- Power InputN/A
- DirectX12 API feature level 12_1
- OpenGL4.6
- SLIN/A
- Supported OSWindows 10 / 7 64-bit
- Card Length151mm x 111.15mm x 38.8mm / 5.94in x 4.38in x 1.53in
- AccessoriesUser Manual
Price
It may suggest good value on the surface (Zotac’s card is only $149.99), but in our tests, the card consistently gets beat by AMD’s ostensibly aging Radeon RX 570, which nowadays comes in roughly $20 to $30 cheaper. That venerable card outperforms the GeForce GTX 1650 by a 10 to 30 percent margin, depending on the game.
ZOTAC gaming GeForce GTX 1650 OC 4GB GDDR6 128-bit gaming graphics card super compact review
Design
he card itself is on the smaller side of the GPU spectrum, at just under 6 inches long and a little over an inch deep, but it will still take up two slots across in your PC chassis. It is based on TU117 GPU from Nvidia using 12nm technology with a die size of 200 mm² and packs 4700M transistors. It has 32 ROP and 56 TMU units with 896 CUDA Cores or shader units.
Ports
The card has a very standard aluminum heatsink that supports a grooved-blade plastic fan, and on the back you’ll find one HDMI 2.0b port, one DisplayPort 1.4 output, and a dual-link DVI output.
Frame rates
The card barely manages a playable frame rate at 1440p, though it did pick up a bit once we turned things down to 1080p (where a card in this price range belongs, anyway). Even at 1080p, the GeForce GTX 1650 manages to get up to only 85fps with most of the settings turned to medium/low presets. That’s fine if you’re okay with detail turned down.
Temperature
Despite the single fan, the GTX 1650 also runs quietly and very cool. An ideal temperature of 30°C is fine, but the GTX 1650’s load temperature of 53°C is downright excellent, and it only peaked at 54°C. That’s much chillier than the RX 570, which generally ran at around 72°C. Of course, the main reason to buy a graphics card is performance, and on that alone the RX 570 is unquestionably the better buy.
Power consumption
Because of the low power requirements for the GTX 1650 (it’s rated for only 75 watts), you won’t need any power-supply cabling plugged in to help keep this card running at full capacity. It draws all the juice it needs from its PCI Express x16 slot.
Overclocking
Using Zotac’s user-friendly overclocking and card-management software, Firestorm, I was able to get 150MHz more out of the boost clock while keeping things at a stable temperature.
ZOTAC gaming GeForce GTX 1650 OC 4GB GDDR6 128-bit gaming graphics card super compact Performance review
The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1650 OC Edition has a performance boost of approximately 25.12% over the GeForce GTX 1050Ti in 1080p gaming.
But, AMD’s RX 570 is making a compelling case here to be the right contender for the upgrade as it is not only beating the GTX 1650 in the gaming performance but can be had in almost same price margin.
In terms of the overall performance the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1650 OC has performed quite well in 1080p gaming as compared to the GTX 1050Ti. In two titles it even manages to beat the RX 570. The average performance boost over the GeForce GTX 1050Ti is above 27% which is quite good and can be seen as an upgrade path to the users of the GeForce GTX 960 and GeForce GTX 10501050Ti.
Tomb Raider runs well, too, with its integrated benchmark ending at 77fps at 1,920×1,080 and 48fps at 2,560×1,440, both with the Ultimate quality setting and FXAA smoothing out edges. Once again, that’s a total victory for the GTX 1650 over its budget rivals, as at 1080p, the GTX 1050 produced 55fps, the GTX 1050 Ti 62fps and the RX 560 a mere 49fps.
Which is worth investment – Zotac GeForce GTX 1650 OC vs. AMD Radeon RX 570
Given their current cost similarities (though, as we mentioned up top, the GeForce GTX 1650 still comes in roughly $20 more expensive at current Radeon RX 570 prices), it’s impossible not to directly compare Nvidia’s budget-entry option to AMD’s lower-end card on the market.
Despite the fact that the Radeon RX 570 (4GB) requires significantly more power than the GTX 1650, it’s clocked quite a bit lower at just 1,168MHz base, compared to the base of 1,485MHz of the GTX 1650. It’s likely much of that extra juice is spent on keeping the higher-bandwidth memory churning along, given that the bus size is twice as large. And the throughput rate is almost double, too, at 224GBps in the Radeon RX 570 versus just 128GBps in the GTX 1650.
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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
Specs
RDNA cores: 5,120Base clock: 1,825MHzBoost clock: 2,250MHzTFLOPs: 23.04Memory: 16GB GDDR6Memory clock: 16GT/sMemory bandwidth: 512GB/s
Pros
+Occasional RTX 3090 performance…+…but cheaper!
Cons
-Can lag behind RTX 3080 at times-Mediocre ray-tracing performance
The RTX 3090 may have sat unchallenged at the top rungs of graphics performance at launch, but it wouldn’t be long until AMD rustled together a challenger in the RX 6900 XT, or ‘Big Navi.’ The RX 6900 XT hopes to knock Ampere’s finest from its perch on high and send it spiraling back down to Earth. And it gets kind of close, too, with 4K performance a little off the pace of the RTX 3090—and all for one-third off the asking price.
For that reason, it’s simply the better buy for any PC gamer without any ulterior motives of the pro-creator variety. But there’s a reason it’s not number one in our graphics card guide today, and that’s simply due to the fact it’s not that much better than an RTX 3080, and sometimes not at all. It’s another $300 on top of the RTX 3080’s price tag, and you’d hope for higher performance in both rasterized and ray tracing workloads. Yet, inevitably its ray-tracing acceleration lags behind the competition.
But the RX 6900 XT does come with assurances that the RTX 3080 can’t make, such as its 16GB of GDDR6 memory, which is a whole 6GB greater than the 10GB of (faster) GDDR6X memory on the green team card. With that in mind, for raw gaming alone, the RX 6900 XT is a cheaper alternative to the RTX 3090 is still a victim to its own extreme price tag.
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