The GeForce GTX 1650 with GDDR6 memory is official. The arrival of this card variant began to be talked about in February and in recent days they have started to appear in some online stores. In the past few hours, some manufacturers, including MSI, have made official the arrival of the new card. MSI has chosen to use the D6 designation to make it recognizable compared to the GTX 1650 with GDDR5 memory.
MSI offers models that are part of the now classic Gaming, Ventus, Aero lines and there is even a “low profile” variant, all solutions that differ in the cooling system and GPU frequencies. Obviously the biggest change affects graphics memory, with the transition from 8 Gbps GDDR5 to 12 Gbps GDDR6. The quantity is unchanged, equal to 4 GB.
The TU117 GPU continues to have 896 CUDA core, 56 TMU and 32 ROPs, as well as a bus to 128 bits. By virtue of the different memory, the bandwidth rises to 192 GB / s compared to 128 GB / s of the GDDR5 model. As for the TDP, we speak of 75 watts, but some cards with higher frequencies still require a 6-pin connector by virtue of an 85-watt TDP – such as MSI’s Gaming X.
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What is the impact of the new memory on the performance of the GTX 1650? According to a test carried out in China by Expreview on a Zotac card, the performance increases from 2% to 10% depending on the game, so on average there is talk of a 6%. The GDDR6, however, have proven to go up quite well in the OC, so raising the memory clock could earn a few percentage points more.
Many are wondering what sense it makes to introduce such a card now, but the motivation is purely technical as confirmed by Nvidia to PC Gamer: “The industry is running out of GDDR5, so we ferried the product to GDDR6“.
