GeForce GTX 1650 vs GeForce RTX 5090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to GeForce GTX 1650 (15/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

GeForce GTX 1650
GeForce

GeForce GTX 1650

15/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 5090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5090

96/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 1650 GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 58.0 Below Average WINNER 48.0 Poor
Gaming 11.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1650 GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 9702 87569
Night Raid 46224 206648
Solar Bay 12275 236689
Time Spy 3562 46873
Wild Life Extreme 7353 108751
Port Royal — 38202

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1650 GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 7.5 12.0
DLSS No DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing No Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1650 GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 42 299
1080p Ultra 32 254
1440p Ultra 22 207
4K Ultra 11 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 37312014 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 75543414 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 282213- 26123316077
Far Cry 6 45412613 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 57322415 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 251514- 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 252117- 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 45432913 329302238128
The Witcher 3 43332110 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1650 GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 12946 85572
Face Detection (HP) 6849 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 3208 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 4254 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 7050 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 3096 8184
Object Detection (SP) 3710 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 23562 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 48894 687080
Text Classification (SP) 1755 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1650 GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 66.4 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 1.68 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 43.3 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.49 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.87 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 1.51 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5261.5 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 187.9 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1650 GeForce RTX 5090
Architecture Turing Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename TU117 GB202-300
Launch price (MSRP) $149 $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 9400or above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released April 23, 2019 January 7, 2025
Segment Entry-level High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1650 GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1485 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1665 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 14 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1024KB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 176
Shading Units 896 21760
Tensor Cores No 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 56 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1650 GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 128-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 8000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2001 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 4 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1650 GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 58 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 35 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 551 1410
GPU Compute 3031 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1650 GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 200 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 12 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 75 W 575 W
Transistor Count 4 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 20 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1650 GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 53 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 93 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

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