The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Review, Feat. Zotac: Fighting Brute Force With Power Efficiency
by Ryan Smith & Nate Oh on May 3, 2019 10:15 AM ESTF1 2018 (DX11)
Succeeding F1 2016 is F1 2018, Codemaster's latest iteration in their official Formula One racing games. It features a slimmed down version of Codemasters' traditional built-in benchmarking tools and scripts, something that is surprisingly absent in DiRT 4.
Aside from keeping up-to-date on the Formula One world, F1 2017 added HDR support, which F1 2018 has maintained; otherwise, we should see any newer versions of Codemasters' EGO engine find its way into F1. Graphically demanding in its own right, F1 2018 keeps a useful racing-type graphics workload in our benchmarks.
The Ultra High, High, and Medium quality presets were used without modification.
F1 is another strong showing for the GTX 1650, offering performance closer to the GTX 1060 3GB than the GTX 1050 Ti, and coming within range of the RX 570.
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nevcairiel - Saturday, May 4, 2019 - link
A P-Frame (Predictive Frame) by definition is only in one direction - backwards. B-Frames (Bidirectional Predictive Frame) are allowed in both directions. This is an import distinction because it matters in which order those frames are put into the encoded video. "Future" frames of course need to be send first, or you can't use them for prediction.Thats where pattern like "IPBBB" come from. You start with a single I frame, a single P frame referencing that I frame (the P might be shown after some B frames), and then an array of B frames that reference both the I and P frames - and possibly each other.
P and B frames are otherwise identical in how they work. Both contain motion vectors and entropy data to correct the interpolation.
Also note that H264 already supported up to 16 reference frames for interpolation. Its called bidirectional not because its two frames, but two directions - past and future.
Opencg - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link
please include fortnight average fps over 10 hour playtime. for all cards. all on the same patch. thxBulat Ziganshin - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link
The "NVIDIA is holding back a bit" part is duplicated on pages 1 and 2Ryan Smith - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link
Whoops. That was meant to get excised when I rearranged the article. Thanks!eva02langley - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link
This card shouldn't exist.R7 was making sense because it was cheaper than a 2080, however this is more expensive than a RX 570... AND WEAKER!
Oxford Guy - Saturday, May 4, 2019 - link
It apparently exists for the GTX 960 buyers (the people who don't do their homework).eek2121 - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link
In before 1650ti. ;)AshlayW - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link
Wow. This card makes no sense. Go watch hardware unboxed's video where he conveniently shoots down the "power efficiency" argument. It's a load of rubbish, there is absolutely no reason to buy this card over even the 4GB 570, for any new gaming build. This review tried so hard to paint this turd in a positive light, continually underscoring AMD's "technological disadvantages" and "thin profit margin". P20 isn't even that much bigger than TU117 also.I'm sorry I just feel it is too friendly to nvidia and doesn't criticize this terrible product pricing enough. RX570 8GB pulse, fro sapphire is cooler running, quieter, vastly higher build quality, >10% faster, twice the vram and 135W board power, which is perfectly fine even for potato OEM builds anyway.
Seriously, drop Ty efficiency arguy. This card is DOA at 149 because 570 killed it.
1024 CC card at 130 bucks would've been passable, not this joke.
AshlayW - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link
The 570 8Gb pulse is also the same price or cheaper than 1650, at least here in the UK. Forgot to mention that important point.AshlayW - Friday, May 3, 2019 - link
Typos as I'm on my phone and I have fat fingers.Should read: "drop the efficiency argument"