We need a genuinely affordable AMD or Nvidia GPU, for the good of PC gaming
There’s a curious anomaly sitting among all the Nvidia GeForce RTX GPUs at the top of the latest Steam Survey. Right there at number four sits the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650, a budget gaming GPU from 2019 that not only has no ray tracing hardware, but also has no Tensor cores – it can’t even run first-gen DLSS upscaling. In terms of specs, this Nvidia GPU is a very long way behind the best graphics card models you can buy right now. It has just 4GB of GDDR5 VRAM and 896 Turing CUDA cores. Amazingly, it doesn’t even need a power cable, with a total graphics power rating of just 75W, which means it can get all its juice directly from a PCIe slot. Continue reading We need a genuinely affordable AMD or Nvidia GPU, for the good of PC gaming MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Ryzen 7 9800X3D review, Best gaming CPU, Radeon RX 9070 XT review
There’s a curious anomaly sitting among all the Nvidia GeForce RTX GPUs at the top of the latest Steam Survey. Right there at number four sits the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650, a budget gaming GPU from 2019 that not only has no ray tracing hardware, but also has no Tensor cores – it can’t even run first-gen DLSS upscaling.
In terms of specs, this Nvidia GPU is a very long way behind the best graphics card models you can buy right now. It has just 4GB of GDDR5 VRAM and 896 Turing CUDA cores. Amazingly, it doesn’t even need a power cable, with a total graphics power rating of just 75W, which means it can get all its juice directly from a PCIe slot.
MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Ryzen 7 9800X3D review, Best gaming CPU, Radeon RX 9070 XT review
