GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile vs 1050 Ti Mobile

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 3 years and 4 months older 1050 Ti Mobile that utilizes 6 pipelines and 768 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

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1050 Ti Laptop over GTX 1650 Ti Laptop
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile
  • Performs significantly better (up to 52%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 77% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 23 vs 13 FPS
  • 20% higher maximum theoretical performance (3 vs 2.5 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 12 nm process technology
  • Achieves 2.1x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (47K vs 21K)
  • Has 71% higher memory bandwidth: 192 vs 112.1 GB/s
  • Has 33% more shading units (1024 vs 768)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
56
33
26
16
32
18
14
-
The Witcher 3
45
33
23
11
23
20
15
-
Counter-Strike 2
77
55
36
14
49
27
20
-
Far Cry 6
43
42
31
14
31
28
18
10
Hogwarts Legacy
27
20
15
-
16
13
11
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
35
30
20
12
29
24
14
12
Ghost of Tsushima
25
18
13
-
15
9
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
26
24
14
-
15
11
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
47
45
28
13
29
24
15
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 42 27
1080p Ultra 33 19
1440p Ultra 23 13
4K Ultra 11 -
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
Time Spy 3674 2345
Fire Strike 10076 7709
Wild Life Extreme 7553 4954
Night Raid 42727 31468
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 83.5 img/sec 57 img/sec
Face Detection 45.7 img/sec 27.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.77 Gpixels/sec 0.84 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.32 Gpixels/sec 1.22 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.28 Gpixels/sec 1.32 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.62 Gpixels/sec 0.19 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 204.1 Gpixels/sec 73.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5954.3 FPS 2037 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 370 323
DirectX 11 61 FPS 45 FPS
DirectX 12 33 FPS 24 FPS
GPU Compute 2717 Ops/s 2190 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 6030 & 1541 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 37 & 22 samples

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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 2866 1393
Image Segmentation (HP) 3745 2013
Image Super Resolution (Q) 6865 4766
Face Detection (HP) 6519 3370
Pose Estimation (Q) 24706 17580
Text Classification (SP) 1793 1319
Machine Translation (HP) 1906 1662
Object Detection (SP) 3498 1771
Depth Estimation (Q) 13936 6411
Style Transfer (SP) 50917 28772
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile and 1050 Ti Mobile

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released April 2, 2020 January 3, 2017
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Turing Pascal
GPU Codename TU117 (N18P-G62) GP107 (N17P-G1)
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 5500M -
Successor - - GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 10300H or above - Intel Core i5 8300H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (109th and 129th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1350 MHz 1493 MHz
Boost Clock 1485 MHz 1620 MHz
Shading Units 1024 768
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 6
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1MB shared 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 48 GPixel/s 52 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 95 GTexel/s 78 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
3 TFLOPS
2.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 50 W 65 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 12 nm 14 nm
Die Size 200 mm² 132 mm²
Transistor Count 4.7 billion 3.3 billion
Transistor Density 23.5 MTr/mm² 25 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Size 4 GB 4 GB
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1752 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 12000 Mbps 7008 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
192 GB/s
112.1 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.2 1.2.131
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
CUDA 7.5 6.1
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4 1.4

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