GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop vs GTX 1650 Mobile

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile 8 GB with 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders against the 2 years and 11 months older GTX 1650 Mobile 4 GB that utilizes 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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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 1650 Laptop over RTX 4060 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 3.1x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 4.6x higher maximum theoretical performance (14.6 vs 3.2 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 3.4x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 67 vs 20 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 24 dedicated RT cores

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
120
77
66
44
53
29
23
14
The Witcher 3
141
112
79
42
40
33
21
9
Counter-Strike 2
205
153
110
54
69
48
33
13
Far Cry 6
103
92
75
43
41
39
26
15
Hogwarts Legacy
74
62
45
25
25
17
13
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CoD: Modern Warfare III
95
85
59
37
35
27
17
13
Ghost of Tsushima
74
60
42
23
22
15
12
-
Cyberpunk 2077
82
72
42
21
24
20
12
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
127
116
83
43
45
42
24
13
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 113 39
1080p Ultra 92 30
1440p Ultra 67 20
4K Ultra 37 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
10212
Time Spy 10397 3442
Solar Bay 45002 -
Port Royal 5819 6905
Fire Strike 26481 9316
Wild Life Extreme 19820 6925
Night Raid 98330 40580
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
97986
Background Blur 142.7 img/sec 74.4 img/sec
Face Detection 103.7 img/sec 42 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.83 Gpixels/sec 1.47 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.93 Gpixels/sec 1.93 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.63 Gpixels/sec 1.81 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.27 Gpixels/sec 0.52 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 430.4 Gpixels/sec 187 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13519.5 FPS 5347.1 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
17346
G2D Mark 731 384
DirectX 11 155 FPS 50 FPS
DirectX 12 72 FPS 27 FPS
GPU Compute 6789 Ops/s 2750 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]22366 & 1754 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
3297.26
Sources: Blender [9], [10]4269 & 74 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-04 (Viru)GeekBench115610
📘 2026-09-04 (Viru)Cinebench 202410216
📘 2026-02-21 (Бенкдикт)GeekBench101184
📘 2025-12-18 (AmirtheX)GeekBench107583
📘 2025-11-17 (kritan)Cinebench 202410306
GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile
No benchmark results yet

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
17683
GB6 ML Half Precision
30738
GB6 ML Quantized
13612
Image Classification (SP) 7421 2866
Image Segmentation (HP) 19041 3745
Image Super Resolution (Q) 20913 6865
Face Detection (HP) 35464 6519
Pose Estimation (Q) 67110 24706
Text Classification (SP) 3086 1793
Machine Translation (HP) 4740 1906
Object Detection (SP) 8644 3498
Depth Estimation (Q) 32456 13936
Style Transfer (SP) 142039 50917
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop and GTX 1650 Mobile

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 22, 2023 April 15, 2020
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Ada Lovelace Turing
GPU Codename AD107 (GN21-X4) TU117
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 5500M
Successor - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core i5 10300H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (42nd and 113th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1140-2295 MHz (configurable) 1380 MHz
Boost Clock 1470-2370 MHz (configurable) 1560 MHz
Shading Units 3072 1024
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 96 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 24 16
Tensor Cores 96 No
Ray-tracing Cores 24 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 71-114 GPixel/s 50 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 141-228 GTexel/s 100 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
9-14.6 TFLOPS
3.2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 35-140 W (configurable) 50 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 12 nm
Die Size 156 mm² 200 mm²
Transistor Count 18.9 billion 4.7 billion
Transistor Density 121.15 MTr/mm² 23.5 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 4 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1500 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 12000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
256 GB/s
192 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
CUDA 8.9 7.5
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS DLSS 3 No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4

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