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GeForce GTX 1650 bottleneck & FPS

Ranked 114 of 126 desktop graphics cards in our database (10th percentile). Paired with a Core i3-8100F it lands near 11 fps at 1080p and 1 fps at 4K in a typical AAA title at high settings.

SpecificationsTuring · 2019
ArchitectureTuring
Shading units896
Boost clock1,665 MHz
Memory4 GB
Memory bandwidth128.1 GB/s
Board power75 W
Released2019
Frame rate by resolutionwith Core i3-8100F, high
ResolutionEst. FPSGPU loadLimited by
1920 x 1080 11 99% Graphics card
2560 x 1440 5 98% Graphics card
3440 x 1440 3 98% Graphics card
3840 x 2160 1 99% Graphics card
Best matched processors1080p, high

Ranked by how little performance the pairing wastes, not by which processor is fastest. The fastest chip pairs well with everything, which makes it a useless recommendation.

ProcessorEst. FPSUnused
Core i3-8100F 11 78.7%
Core i3-8100 11 78.7%
Core i3-8300 11 79.3%
Core i3-8350K 11 80.9%
Core i3-9100 11 81.8%
Core i3-9100F 11 81.8%
Estimated FPS by game1440p, high, Core i3-8100F
GameEst. FPSVRAM
Cyberpunk 2077 2 11.5 GB needed
Fortnite 8 6.7 GB needed
Counter-Strike 2 32 4 GB needed
Baldur's Gate 3 5 8.1 GB needed
Red Dead Redemption 2 3 9.4 GB needed
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 3 10.8 GB needed

What to expect from a GeForce GTX 1650

This card sits in the lower part of the range we model. It will run modern titles at 1080p with settings turned down, and it will be the limiting component in almost any pairing — which means there is no sense pairing it with an expensive processor.

If frame rates are disappointing, the card is where an upgrade will help. Nothing else in the system is holding it back.

4 GB is this card's real limit

13 of the 16 titles we model exceed 4 GB at 1440p and high settings. On this card memory, not shader throughput, is the thing that will make modern games stutter. Texture quality is the setting to lower first, and it usually costs less visual fidelity than the alternatives.

A note on age

Released in 2019, this card is 7 years old. Beyond raw speed, older hardware misses features newer engines increasingly assume — mesh shaders, hardware ray tracing, and the newest upscalers. A modern title may run worse than these numbers suggest, or refuse to launch, for reasons the model cannot see.

Where it sits

Ranked 114 of 126 desktop cards we model. Nearest faster: Radeon RX 470D, Radeon RX 6300. Just below: Radeon RX 560 XT, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. Full method on the methodology page.