MSI GeForce GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G

Nvidia’s new GPU brings merely a modest boost in performance, thinks Jarred Walton.

- Jarred Walton

The release of the GeForce GTX 1650 was inevitable, considering that none of the other Turing GPUs can fill the role of a budget graphics card. This is likely the final implementation of the Turing architecture, at least at 12nm. The GTX 1650 uses a new TU117 GPU, which is a smaller and thus less expensive variant of the TU116 that powers the Nvidia GTX 1660 (see our review in LXF251) and 1660 Ti cards. The key differences relative to the 1660 line are in the memory configuration and the obviously reduced number of streaming multiprocessors.