GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER vs GTX 1070

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER 4 GB with 20 pipelines and 1280 shaders against the 3 years and 4 months older GTX 1070 8 GB that utilizes 15 pipelines and 1920 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
4 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR5
22.1
(Mediocre)
Value Index
43.5
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1070 over GTX 1650 SUPER
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 12 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1070
  • Performs better (up to 33%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 48% higher maximum theoretical performance (6.5 vs 4.4 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 29% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 40 vs 31 FPS
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
  • Has 33% higher memory bandwidth: 256.3 vs 192 GB/s
  • Has 50% more shading units (1920 vs 1280)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
73
42
33
21
88
50
41
25
The Witcher 3
60
46
32
16
83
68
47
25
Counter-Strike 2
107
71
49
21
135
95
68
32
Far Cry 6
57
48
37
19
73
64
47
24
Hogwarts Legacy
33
26
22
11
45
38
29
13
CoD: Modern Warfare III
41
35
24
15
54
49
33
22
Ghost of Tsushima
32
22
20
-
43
31
24
13
Cyberpunk 2077
36
33
20
-
45
44
24
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
62
55
38
17
79
73
48
25
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 56 72
1080p Ultra 42 57
1440p Ultra 31 40
4K Ultra 15 21
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
GTX 1070 +33%
5858
Time Spy 4691 6091
Solar Bay - 16030
Port Royal - 1283
Fire Strike 12267 18705
Wild Life Extreme 9634 12186
Night Raid 60033 72459
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
57455
53429
Background Blur 106.6 img/sec 142.3 img/sec
Face Detection 58.3 img/sec 65.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.98 Gpixels/sec 2.2 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.67 Gpixels/sec 3.23 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.79 Gpixels/sec 3.74 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.75 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 248.2 Gpixels/sec 195.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7783.2 FPS 5161.6 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
GTX 1070 +33%
13511
G2D Mark 749 848
DirectX 11 73 FPS 99 FPS
DirectX 12 45 FPS 49 FPS
GPU Compute 4455 Ops/s 6123 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 7469 & 53848 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
GTX 1070 +2%
556.54
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 108 & 1387 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
No benchmark results yet
GeForce GTX 1070
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-09 (yourtrain)Geekbench 6 OpenCL53862
📘 2026-08-09 (yourtrain)Cinebench 20243551

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
8531
8330
GB6 ML Half Precision
GTX 1070 +13%
8293
GB6 ML Quantized
GTX 1070 +1%
6176
Image Classification (SP) 3533 2295
Image Segmentation (HP) 5144 4955
Image Super Resolution (Q) 7927 10587
Face Detection (HP) 8860 8747
Pose Estimation (Q) 30433 51263
Text Classification (SP) 1622 1461
Machine Translation (HP) 2754 2342
Object Detection (SP) 4278 2960
Depth Estimation (Q) 15240 15275
Style Transfer (SP) 66527 104907
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER and GTX 1070

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released April 23, 2019 January 10, 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $159 $379
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture Turing Pascal
GPU Codename TU116 GP104
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 5500 XT - Radeon RX 5600 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 9400 or above - Intel Core i7 7700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (81st and 76th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1530 MHz 1506 MHz
Boost Clock 1725 MHz 1683 MHz
Shading Units 1280 1920
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 120
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 15
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1024KB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 55 GPixel/s 108 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 138 GTexel/s 202 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
4.4 TFLOPS
GTX 1070 +48%
6.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 100 W 150 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 12 nm 16 nm
Die Size 284 mm² 314 mm²
Transistor Count 6 billion 7 billion
Transistor Density 21.13 MTr/mm² 22.29 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Size 4 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 2002 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 12000 Mbps 8000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
192 GB/s
GTX 1070 +33%
256.3 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 7.5 6.1
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
Further details
Notes on GTX 1070:
    - There's a version with GDDR5X memory.

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