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 ESTFar Cry 5 (DX11)
The latest title in Ubisoft's Far Cry series lands us right into the unwelcoming arms of an armed militant cult in Montana, one of the many middles-of-nowhere in the United States. With a charismatic and enigmatic adversary, gorgeous landscapes of the northwestern American flavor, and lots of violence, it is classic Far Cry fare. Graphically intensive in an open-world environment, the game mixes in action and exploration.
The Ultra, High, and Normal presets were used. Far Cry 5 does support Vega-centric features with Rapid Packed Math and Shader Intrinsics, these were left off for testing. Far Cry 5 also supports HDR (HDR10, scRGB, and FreeSync 2). This testing was done without HD Textures enabled, an option that was recently patched in.
For Far Cry 5, the GTX 1650 is again perched in the GTX 1060 3GB and GTX 1050 Ti performance gap, pulling away further from the GTX 1050 Ti at more intensive settings. The RX 570, while slower than the GTX 1060 3GB in this title, is still firmly ahead of the GTX 1650.
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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"