GeForce GTX 1650 review - Benchmarks with an MSI GTX 1650 Gaming X (Update) | igorsLAB | Page 18

Summary

A sentence with X? Yes… But I don't want to be so cruel, so I start with a target group that can also gain something positive from the whole thing, namely the system integrators, complete PC discounters and the private boasters of such products. If Nvidia had at least remained so consistent and had the board partners prohibited the flange-frisking of external voltage connections and frozen the power limit at 70 watts, then I would have had a positive conclusion, if one excludes the launch price .

And availability? One day after the launch, only cards from a single manufacturer can be found in the price search engines at pharmacy prices, at least some dealers now also have cards from other manufacturers in stock. But the price from around 160 is de facto unacceptable. This means that this card is at least 40 to 50 euros more expensive than a good Radeon RX 570 Pulse Mini 4 GB from Sapphire, which is even faster. You don't have to haggle because of maybe 40 watts more power consumption, because even the 130 watts of the Radeon do not pose any financial or thermal problems.

You don't have to say big words about the rest, because the GeForce GTX 1650 isn't really attractive. It might have been at a reasonable price and without an additional supply, but please not. That one has slowed down oneself in order to first undercut the magic 75-watt limit and to belly-pile the SI, but then is released to the board partners up to 100 watts, sorry for the hard expression, rarely stupid.

What you have to credit for the GeForce GTX 1650, however, is its low power consumption, which makes it a real purchase option for those who don't need to use their pre-finished PC for the few models without a separate power supply connector. supply connection and still need more performance. This is where this card starts perfectly. OBS with Nvidia Encoder for the streamers would also be such an option that should not be underestimated. Wouldn't it be the completely detached price.

As a pure gamer card, it is quite slow, even in Full HD. However, it is probably enough if you are willing to make major reductions in the graphics quality or if the number of rendered images is not really the killer argument. The memory expansion is a bit meager, however, but should be enough for the still playable quality settings of current games at least for the majority of these titles. However, our benchmark in Wolfenstein II shows what happens when memory becomes more important. If such exceptions become a trend, then good night.

MSI GTX 1650 Gaming X

The purely technical implementation of MSI is absolutely fine at first, even if the card could and even have to be smaller in a few numbers. Cooler and board have been cleaned and well loosened, but are definitely oversized for such a small card. For this, the overclockability and the noise emission are the very first goodness, if you can even call it that with such a map. In sum, it is a solid product, only the drive weakens a little badly.

Since there will also be models under the Gaming X, these would be even the more honest cards. The current boost back and forth, it doesn't really help the card. And that's where the circle closes again at the beginning of my summary. Beautiful product, but too expensive and therefore almost superfluous. Even with a gold steering wheel and a larger tank, a Trabant will not be a superport car, just unreasonable. There are even good alternatives from our own house, albeit with Radeon drive.

Conclusion

Be that as it may, I do not have to repeat myself. If Nvidia had launched the GeForce GTX 1650 as a reason card with a restrictive power limit for a jack-free existence and a GeForce GTX 1650 Ti with 1024 shaders and an extra tank nozzle at the top, then you would have understood the whole thing as a package and made sense can find it. But with luxury foot hoists on steroids and cards that are withheld for no real reason, you don't win a flowerpot. No, not even a flower pot coaster.

The card can only lose in this form and at these prices and that is probably why there were probably no drivers yesterday. But truths don't get any less painful when you push them a few more hours ahead of you. Too bad for the whole launch and the effort, only to find out at the end that something is not going as it should. But even this fits seamlessly into an almost continuous series of inconsistencies, which some managers on the green field man's hill should finally become aware of. The customers are not deppen.

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