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NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 Released: GDDR6 Reaching Price Parity With GDDR5
Tucked inside NVIDIA's announcement of their spring refresh of their mobile GPU lineup, the company included a new low-end mobile part, the GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6. Exactly as it says on the tin, this was a version of the company's GTX 1650 accelerator, except with newer GDDR6 instead of the GDDR5 it launched with. Now, in one of NVIDIA's more poorly kept secrets, their desktop product stack is getting a version of the card as well.
[...] The entry-level card is the cheapest (and the slowest) of the Turing family, offering as much performance as NVIDIA can pack into a 75 Watt TDP.
[...] Overall, this low-key release should mark a more important turning point in the state of GDDR memory. If NVIDIA and its partners are now willing to release GDDR6 versions of low-end cards, then this is a strong indicator that GDDR6 has finally lost most of its new technology price premium, and that memory prices have fallen by enough to be competitive with 8Gbps GDDR5. GDDR6 prices were a sticking point for the profit-sensitive NVIDIA during the original Turing product stack launch, so while it has taken an extra year, the company is finally offering a top-to-bottom GDDR6-based product stack.
Let's see more GPUs and APUs with HBM already.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday April 07 2020, @11:34AM
You could be asking the wrong question. You should determine what you want to do with it and pay accordingly. If you are targeting 1080p resolution at X FPS in certain games, you aren't going to need as much performance as someone looking to do 4K. But if cards below a certain performance don't meet the target, they aren't useful to you, even if they are highly efficient or have good $/performance.
If you aren't doing gaming at all, but Folding@home or something, maybe the argument can be made for best $/performance with electricity usage and PSU size factored in.
One option is to try to get the RX 570 at $100, although it's more like ~$115 in my Slickdeals search. It also uses double the power of the GTX 1650, 150W vs 75W, so maybe it's not worth it on that basis.
Another factor is that there's likely going to be new GPUs launched by AMD and Nvidia by the end of the year (Big Navi and Ampere in the October-January timeframe), so that will change the price landscape again. But waiting that long might not make sense if you plan to do weeks of quarantine gaming.
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