According to the latest reports, it seems that the increase in demand for the GeForce GTX 1650 It has taken NVIDIA and its production by surprise. The reason for this is that it indicates that the partners no longer have access to the original chip used to give life to this GPU, which is the TU117. Specifically, from China it is indicated that there is no longer stock of this siliconso NVIDIA partners will be forced to use more powerful chips to bring this GPU to life.
To be exact, it is indicated that the graphics chips would be used TU106. In essence, they will use chips intended for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 to maintain the production of GeForce GTX 1650 GPUs. Obviously, these silicons will be capped to offer a performance very similar to what an original GeForce GTX 1650 would offer. This means that some adjustments have to be made in the specifications, since the largest silicons tend to consume more energy, but in the end, gamers should expect similar performance. In some cases, as we have seen in the past, even improve performance in a specific task.
This only indicates that there is still demand for the GeForce GTX 1650. It’s not that it comes as a surprise, as any entry-level GPU today has sky-high inflated prices. Of course, it will be curious to see a GTX 1650 with a completely different architecture inside that, if it were not covered, would give access to Ray Tracing and, most importantly, NVIDIA DLSS technology. It is also curious that I know of this situation instead of discontinuing the product
and lower the price of its successor.
We remind you of the specifications of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
Released in 2019, this GPU manufactured by TSMC at 12nm, offers a total of 896 CUDA Colors under architecture Turing. At a Turbgo frequency of 1,665 MHz, this GPU offers a performance of 3 TFLOPs with a TDP of 75W. The chip is accompanied by 4GB of GDDR5 memory at 8 Gbps which, with a 128-bit memory interface, achieves a bandwidth of 128.1 GB/s.
Just a year later, came the GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6. In essence it is the same GPU, but with a memory that reaches 12 Gbps to increase its bandwidth up to 192 GB/s. This is the graph that we can find today for sale at a starting price that moves in the 165 euros. Its popularity makes sense, since today, a GeForce RTX 2060 is available at a starting price of 295 euros.