Out of Stock GDDR5, Nvidia GTX 1650 variant will use GDDR6

Either because it was affected by the Corona outbreak which made Nvidia run out of stock of the GDDR5 memory they were using, or indeed they had planned to refresh the lowest series of their GTX 16XX graphics card line-up. Nvidia has quietly issued a GDDR6 memory variant for the GTX 1650.

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This secret graphics card itself was first reported by ExPreview via Videocardz, which has obtained and reviewed the Zotac-branded GTX 1650 GDDR6. Surprisingly this card has no sign of going public for their line up of desktop graphics cards, but instead appears on their manufacturer’s website.

When asked for confirmation about the reason they secretly replaced their graphics card memory. Nvidia representatives simply said that the industry is currently running out of stock GDDR 5, so they (Nvidia) are transitioning to GDDR6 for their products.

Even though the GPU clock has been lowered by 1485 MHz to 1410 MHz, the memory bandwidth has increased from 128 GB/s to 192 GB/s. Moreover, Nvidia has also increased its memory clock from 8GB/s to 12GB/s, which means it has the same clock as the GTX 1650 Super. And lastly, because this GDDR6 version uses a lower clock, the electricity consumption of the GTX 1650 GDDR6 drops to 76 watts from the GDDR5 version which reaches 83 watts. All these improvisations alone provide an overall increase of 6-10% for the GTX 1650 series.

Then when will Nvidia release this new version of the GTX 1650? As we said before, many manufacturers are being hit by Corona which of course makes their production falter, so Nvidia itself has not officially announced it until now. Moreover, there is still a stock version of GDDR5 that must be spent first. For the price, from the available info, it ranges from 999 yuan or around 2.3 million for the cheapest version to 1099 yuan or around 2.5 million.