It's still a very capable card but I feel like that 4 gigs of VRAM will hold it back in the future. I managed to get a 1080 Ti for $200 today and I couldn't be happier.
With how much these new gpus "improve" the gpu you bough its a steal for the money you can hold on to it until you have kids 😂 if you dont care about rtx or dlss or until the vram is too low and that wont happen anytime soon considering gpu manufactuers release still 4gb gpus enjoy it my friend 😊
@@Alexutzzu 4gb vram is too low nowadays. Doom eternal can easily exceed 4gb vram on higher texture settings. Skyrim se modded can easily use over 4gb vram. Same with several other games.
I bought a PC with this GPU around a year ago, and it's run everything I threw at it perfectly, native or emulated. 60 fps 1080p almost everything, even in stuff like rdr2, control, and hitman 3. I'll only upgrade it if I get into pcvr, because for normal gaming it gets the job done perfectly. Super happy with it.
@@kai_444 wow, the internet hostility never changes, it seems like these days if someone points out something stupid then that person is in the wrong for doing so...
I absolutely love my 1650 super. I got it about 1,5 years ago as part of a pre-built pc with the intention of playing mainly world of warships and Minecraft with it. However, I have been playing a lot of more or less recent AAA titles with it and it was capable of running everything at 1080p with decent settings and good fps. From my experience the VRAM really is only an issue, if the game is actively preventing you from applying the settings if you're exceeding the limit. The actual performance impact is negligible. I don't regret the purchase one bit.
Earlier this summer I managed to find 1650 super evga for around 160 euro, bought it as an upgrade from 2gb 1050, love it so far. Paired with i7 6700k and 16gb ram is doing very well.
Picked one of these up last week and hsve been very pleased by the performance so far. Only gsme it hasn't handled well so far is Control. Even Remnant from the Ashes I was getting 60+ Fps on high settings.
2:56 with around 135 hours in elder ring on this GPU, I recommend staying at medium because some areas are more demanding than others and the visual quality barely changes from high+med grass anyway. You should stay at 60 and sometimes dip to high 50s in very demanding bits, which you won't notice.
yeah i got a rx 5500 oem which is basically equivalent tho i overclock and use SAM from my r5 5600g i play most games at 1440p just cuz lmao stick to bout 45 to 60 fps
I have this gpu too, the problem is not the card is elden ring that is optimize like a potato, you need to reduce the grass setting and texture to medium, you can hit 60 very easily
I have this card in my system and I can confidently say that, it is still a very competent card. Also, the cost per frames is insane. But you are right, some games do exceed the VRAM limit and it results in frequent frame drops. Got it a couple of years ago for 200 bucks, can't be happier!
1650 super is still a great card for the right price. Several of them still priced weirdly high (125-150 US) considering where GPU pricing has fallen to. I picked up an rx6600 for 175 today and a 2070 super for 200 last week. It just can’t compete unless it’s significantly cheaper.
@@Dfm253 the normal 1650 has some variants that don’t require supplemental power, but I’m pretty sure every 1650 super requires at least a 6pin. Now If you’re brave enough to use sata power to 6pin adapters or lucky enough to have an office system with a 6pin power just hanging out sure it’s a perfect card for sprucing up an office PC
@@_Dandy_S power draw, the cost per frame/watt per frame is really low. You could easily game on a generator or off grid power set up with little to no issues. It was a good release by nvidia for a budget or niche consumer.
Definitely holds up better than the regular 1650, pretty much good enough for 1080p60 on nearly all games if you're conservative on settings and use FSR if it's available
This was the GPU I first bought when I got into the PC space 2 years ago and I loved all my time with it, eventually handing it down to a relative. It really showed me how inexpensive it is to get into PC gaming!
One of the best GPUs designs I have ever witnessed. I still have 2 of these at home (1650 non SUPER variants) which don’t require an external PSU connections, the 1650 runs off the bare 75W powered PCIe bus. I paired mines with an i7-7700k and an i3-8350k, runs anything you throw at it. Again, amazing design.
Pleasently surprised by the performance of this thing. Despite me having a decent card like the RX 6600, I'm always interested in videos like this. Pretty sad that Nvidia went the stingy way with the VRAM though, especially since they know all too well that a card like that being released in 2019 should have atleast 6GB of VRAM to keep it better equipped for later games. Very surprising performance though and great video as always
I bought this card in 2020, it has served me well for most things at 1080p 60+ fps and 1440p 30fps to play on the big TV. it has surprised me how well it can run games like red dead redemption 2 at 1080p, reaching 60fps on xbox one x settings from digital foundry, at 1080p ultra graphics (reflections low and high shadows) it runs for like 30-40fps and at 1440p I can run on a mix of ultra-high settings as well with stable 30fps to play on my big tv from my couch, a decent experience for the price, I'm too much of a casual gamer to care about fps, if the game looks clear and beautiful I can handle 30fps just fine with my controller and playing it like a console. I'm still considering switching to AMD soon as I find the lack of VRAM its main limitation, and I really want to get me a card now that could run me my games at 4k ultra settings, even at 30fps, I'm just addicted to cracking every setting in game to the highest to see if it is really that much prettier
I've had one of these cards for a year and never really had any problem. It always performs as you'd expect it to and Im guessing it's gonna continue to be a good card for a few more years
Currently using 1650 non-super paired with i7 4790 on my scrappy build. It is barely not cpu-bottlenecking and works like a charm on the games i play. Dying Light 2 on low goes just fine
Had this card on my old 4690K rig (@4.4) and depending on the game it was either CPU or GPU bound and sometimes for example BF4 and Fortnite it was bound by both (both being at or near 100% utilization). I upgraded to an i7 10700KF and kept the 1650S for a while and some games ran surprisingly better while some ran the same (I did get a 3080 in the end though).
@@_Lassic_ there's no way that's true. 4770 is a capable CPU, but 1050ti was a budget-oriented card when it came out, you'd need a way better GPU to play modern games on ultra.
@@elu9780 for instance, I can play Shadow of the Tomb Raider, 1080p, Max settings, the lowest fps I've seen is it falling to 40 shortly. Other than that, it stays at 60 fps or very close to.
Thanks for this, I have the big brother of this the 1660 and it does perfectly fine. I'm considering this for another budget gaming PC build I'm doing and I think it'll be perfectly fine for this application.
A friend had a prebuilt dell and was very kind, sold us this card and we had it for over a year! Don't let the single fan fool you, the dell 1650s is a great little card! It is wise to have extra case fans blowing in and at least one or two exhausting, but we finally upgraded both rigs to dell 3060ti, he sold his xps, but I sold it back to him at a lower price, he was thrilled to get it back.
G'day Random, I ended up getting a Strix 1650Super for my nephew to replace his RX480Nitro 8GB that died early this year, prices were still stoopid over $300 due to mining at the time but managed to snag a deal of $200AUD for it as I was buying a few other parts from the seller. He mainly plays FPShooter games like ForKnife, COD & CS:GO with a 1600x900-60fps monitor so dropping to 4GB VRAM wasn't an issue
I bought my GTX 1650S just before prices went super crazy during COVID. It still runs most games I play at 60FPS or more. Really wish it had more VRAM because 4GB really holds it back.
I think the CPU really tanking all the works here but I think this particular card is really good for 1080p gaming performance at least for back up or temporary use before you wanna go for an upgrade
I have a htpc with an 1050 right now, and this seems like a dream upgrade (because it’s literally the best lp card for gaming). Really seems worth upgrading
I'm running ryzen 3 3100 16 gigs of ram with the non super 1650, but it's the gddr6 version. Cyberpunk runs on medium low 1080p 60fps. I couldn't be happier. FidelityFX makes it even more playable. Haven't had an issue apart from bunch of crashes so I'm happy
I have a MSI 1650 SUPER AERO ITX OC. I dont have any of the games tested on the video, here are my tests: Same pc as shown in the video, but no ssd or m.2 (mechanical FTW XD) and the cpu is the non f version (has IGPU) *Payday 2: Jewelry store "loud" 1080p all maxed no vsync, 90pfs constant *WarThunder: Benchmark "Tank battle (CPU)" vsync off 1080p, TAA (temporal scale max), Anisotropic X2, textures shadows medium, physics max, effects high, detailed foliage on, grass trees other min or off--- max 218 fps, min 145 fps, rating 1293 *Doom 2016 1st rune trial "Vacuum", all high 1080p vsync off, TSSAA X8, FOV 110, DOF Bloom Motion blur off and low, Anisotropic X4, +190 FPS, it can do all ultra no problem but the fan gets too noisy and the quality does not really improve too much *CS GO Bechmark 1080p no vsync, MSAA X2, Motion blur and texture streaming off, all high or auto. average 409 fps min 61 fps (in the smoke) max +500 fps *Lust from Beyond: Scarlet 1080p all high, limit 120, FSAA, vsync motion blur off, min 80 fps (on the theater stage) *Xenia- X360, MGS HD collection, MGS3, Starting jungle, perfect performance
I bought a cheapo MSI Ventus OC version when they came out for my HTPC (I also game a bit on it). It's a bloody good little card. Is 4 Gb limiting, probably but it was an improvement over the 1 Gb AMD card I had !!
I bought a PNY version of this card a year ago when the GPUs were way over msrp and I needed something capable and have been really pleased with this card.
Just bought this card off ebay for $118 usd ($140 after shipping and taxes). I had a 300 dollar budget and was expecting to have to save from my next check as well but the seller I found seemed legit so I did not hesitate to take advantage of this low price. Very excited about this but keeping my fingers crossed it's not a fake.
I got an ASUS one from Curry's for £140 just before the shortage and it's probably the best value card I'd ever bought. This thing was a 125w "OC Edition" one that boosted all the way to 2100mHz and typically stayed there. The thing was a solid 1080p medium 60fps card in almost any game, with some higher end games maybe needing some tweaks, but you pointed that out anyways. If I hadn't come into having the spare cash to buy a 3060 for 144fps gaming I'd still be using it. Sold it to a friend and it's still doing a solid job for him. Very recommended.
@Captain_Morgan Yes you can still have to use it e every now and again for customer builds, at the high point on lockdown I was paying £240 for a new 1650 😅 crazy times
This little Dell/OEM 1650 Super is actually built just the way it needs to be. Those bigger cooler models out there (even the Nvidia FE), you are paying for aesthetics, nothing else. Little cooler needed for a 100W GPU. Even a one-fan model can cool it pretty silently. A big heatsink can cool it passively.
Recently bought a preowned OEM Dell 7040 MT on eBay and slapped a 1650 Super in it. The stock PSU in the 7040 cannot safely handle much more wattage than the 100W of the 1650 Super, so this was about the fastest option available without having to upgrade the PSU as well. Ended up being a great value budget 1080p gaming PC for anyone with a limited budget, like a kid looking to get into esports or even 60 FPS AAA titles in 1080p/low-to-medium settings. I spent a total of 180 dollars for the 7040 MT with an i7- 6700, 16 GB DDR4, the 1650 Super and a SATA 15-pin to 6-pin PCIe adapter. Temps are surprisingly good despite the poor airflow in the 7040 case, but I will probably go ahead and spend another 20 dollars to modify the case and add a fan or two. Dremel time.
I bought my 1650 Super for about $150, new, in Feb 2020 (just in time!), when the RX 580 was going for similar money, as well. The 1650S spiked up to $500 during COVID. I'd still say $150 is what the card is worth, I wouldn't spend more, especially not used. As you saw, it performs well on older games and more story based PVE stuff like Elden Ring. It starts wheezing hard when you throw newer FPS online titles at it, it's not going to push 1440p or high refresh rates very well, 1080p 60FPS Medium Settings is its sweet spot. It's a fantastic cheap card for the strategy gamer, things like Civilization/Cities Skylines/Transport Fever 2 are a great fit for the 1650S. Use it for a budget build where you spend more on other components but cheap out on GPU, expecting to upgrade it later. It's a good card to use in a cheap rig you build for a kid to play Fortnite in Performance Mode. If you must buy one used, though, consider getting a 1660ti, instead, the price won't be hugely different ($150ish used right now instead of $100ish for 1650S) but the 1660ti has a LOT more power, it was the midrange king. If you can't get the 1650S for less than $150, you're better off stretching for a new RX6600/6600xt. The cards are holding value, but obviously dropping prices fast on eBay right now.
I want that GPU! It would fit perfectly with my Optiplex 990! (Would trade my GTX 960 in there for that). Plus a little extra cash to make it equal value.
Back in early 2020 I built my beginner video editing system. I looked at the 1650 ($160) and the 1650S($170). The 1650S beat the pant off the 1650 so that is what I went with. For $10 more it seem to be a steal. I had hoped to upgrade it by the end of the year as I got better editing stuff but.... well you know what happened. The 1650S did a great job for what it is. I was glad to have it.
My sister has that GPU, since I recently move to a 5800x3D and new 3090 Ti system, I gave her my old mainboard and CPU+RAM and later bought a 1660 Super. When I tried to see what games she plays (Genshin Impact, Roblox, Minecraft) I noticed that the old 1650 is more than enough. Even on her 21:9 2560x1080p 144hz monitor she never had any performance issues on the 1650. I'm quiet impressed by this little entry level GPU. I will still upgrade with the 1660S in case she wants to play more demanding games in the future.
when you do gta online performance tests could you do one in a empty invite only session and another in a completely full session , there's a huge performance difference
I have a laptop with a 1660 ti and it performs wonderfully in games with pretty high settings, I used to use it for VR before I bought my desktop and it was pretty respectable in that regard as well.
I have both the Palit GTX 1650 super and Gigabyte GTX 1060 GB cards. The GTX 1650 super out-performed the GTX 1060 6GB in all the tests I've run in terms of fps. (Rust, ESO online, CS go, PUBG, Destiny 2 etc.) Only noticeable problems I've encountered were textures not loading in fast enough or not at all when the GPU hits past the 4gb VRAM mark, (in rust only' could be Rust's game engine, not sure) had micro stutters where the GTX 1060 (even at lower fps) had none but also took a few sec to render in larger bases and stuff. I still prefer my 1650 super over the 1060 6gb as I'd rather have the higher frame rate. I mainly play Rust, great game and the super gives me around a solid 80 to 100+ fps at 1080p med'ish. Would be a great video if you can make a comparison video between the 2 cards, since I'm limited to a few games. Would like to see how the 1060 6gb would stack up to the super when running cyberpunk. Currently saving up for Star Citizen. Doubt this GPU will run it well tbh.
It's my current GPU from a pre-build Asus PC and yeah she do the job for the games i play (the games aren't too demanding except on certain areas sometimes) paired with an r5 3600x it's great :D
Currently running a 1650s. Still holding strong at 1080p, but the movement in this portion of the market has been glacial to the point where I wouldn't recommend it at current new prices. If it broke tomorrow, I'd be looking at the 6600 series or used market.
They pretty much pulled this card since it was only 159$ at launch, it was easily a beast in the price to performance category.. even with 4gb it out performed many 8 gb cards in its class.
I still have a 1650 in my laptop, Asus Zephyrus 14, and it works well. Games that need to look pretty, like Forza or flight sim, do well in medium settings. Laptop stays thin and relatively cool too.
Can you test the Chinese RX 6600M graphics card? It's essentially the same mobile chip on a PCB for a GPU. From other YT videos it has a similar performance to the desktop variant.
The PCI-E power limit, without external power connection, is still what's most interesting to me. A GTX 1050Ti upgrade to newest technologies woulf be amazing
I've been using a 1650 Super since early 2020, and the 4GB is really starting to become a big bottleneck, not just due to the amount but just the relatively low memory bandwidth. The GPU itself can clearly deal with most stuff as long as texture and shadow res are set relatively low. Unfortunately, there is still no suitable replacement in the sub-€250 range, even on the used market.
@@TedPhillips I would first check how good the cooling of the VRAM is in that case, the Dell model looks like it may not even have thermal pads connecting the VRAM to the heatsink and the card is already thermal-throttling for the core.
@@alinzelnan true, but I assume most people don't have the desktop OEM prebuilt editions though. My remark wasn't directed at the Dell card specifically. It's good to point out of course.
@@TedPhillips You're right, I just thought of the video in that regard. My GTX 1060 also had some good performance increases when overclocking the memory, newer generations seem to be very much at the limit already.
My 1650 super was great, but the 4gb of vram really killed it for me, most my games were vram limited but the card still had plenty of power to it, switched to a rx6600 with 8gb vram and couldn't be happier
You need a 1650 D6 variant that doesn't require a supplemental power adapter for the ultimate pcie power only upgrade card. On the note of 75w cards, it's crazy that the 3000 generation came and went without serving the low power market segment at all. Same with AMD but they haven't done low power since Polaris.
@@globalist1990 I said the 1650 D6, not the super. The 1650 D6 comes in 75w models and is the fastest card that doesn't require supplemental power. That's what I was suggesting as a video topic.
GTX 980 performance on a max 100W GPU. Can be used as a upgrade for an "Office PC" (Molex>PCI-E adapter would be fine for this one) And it can game just about anything. Nothing to really dislike about it.
I ended up going for an RX 570 over the 1650 super, for a single reason: I didn't have to wait for one to arrive from CeX in the, quite frankly, unreliable Post and my local store had a 4GB Asus Strix RX 570. Got a cheap MSI Nightblade (yes, I know...) MI3 in an eBay auction, and the 570 just about fit the power ceiling.
@@RandomGaminginHD Yeah, it's to do with the memory being gddr6 but only being clocked to 6000 mhz. Therefore, overclocking to 7000 mhz is in line with the memory spec. Hope that makes sense!
still a powerhouse GPU paired with a Ryzen 7 1700 and 16gb of ram got a benchmark of 112 fps in COD mw2 using the Recommended Performance Preset at 1080p
My 1650Super is held back by my 4690S. But it's still a good card for my use. It runs my couch co-op gaming system, which is attached to a 1080/60hz tv.
That looked like a good performing card, though I'd be hesitant to use a 4GB card as a primary card for much longer into the future, due to the reasons that you mention in the video. 4GB could prevent you from using higher settings options, whereas a 6GB or 8GB VRAM card would prove to be better. Speaking of, since you mention the GTX 1060, I'd only recommend the 6GB variant of the card - as 3GB of VRAM isn't enough nowadays.
Bro I have gtx 1650 super OC duel fan version paired with 9100f. In 1080p I cannot set high texture in AC Valhalla because of low vram but I can easily play C Punk max settings in 30 fps. But I have a question. How does it work in your motherboard with ddr5 vs ddr4 ram. As this GPU has less vram one might have better fps using ddr5 ram as shared vram. Please test it in AC Valhalla, C Punk and GTA5.
