GTX 1650 Advice Needed

Carl-G wrote on 9/8/2019, 8:38 PM

Looking to upgrade on-board Intel 4500 to GPU: GTX1650
Asus GTX1650 1 fan
Asus GTX1650 2 fan

Has anyone used a 1650 yet with Vegas Pro 17 (even 16?)? Can you offer advice?
1. Does this card have the new 'Studio' Driver? (is that Nvidia driver or is that board manufacture independent)?
2. The MSI card version says it has the latest DirectX 12 and OpenCL (Wouldn't these others above have the same? And is that important in Vegas Pro to have on a GPU card?)

End result is: I'm looking for better time-line play in Best mode, faster render times, and low noise fan operation.

I want to stay with a PCI driven 75watts of power until I upgrade in the future. I have a SeaSonics 850w PS... but I prefer low heat (75W vs 120W+), and low noise. (perhaps 1 fan vs 2 fan).

Using in large well ventilated cabinet with Asus Z87, i-7 (gen 4), 32GB RAM, SSDs, Windows 10 Pro.

Comments

Former user wrote on 9/9/2019, 2:38 AM

This card contains the lower quality/lower speed NVENC hardware encoder, not the Turing one. It's equivalent to the single chip GTX10** series NVENC cards, which I think is gtx1070 and lower. If the price different between 1650 & 1660 a huge amount then maybe you buy. It wasn't priced very affordable for what it actually does. slower than the 3 year old GTX1060, old NVENC. It was seen as such bad value maybe Nvidia changed it's price. I am recollecting the launch disappointment.

Carl-G wrote on 9/9/2019, 10:31 AM

This card contains the lower quality/lower speed NVENC hardware encoder, not the Turing one. It's equivalent to the single chip GTX10** series NVENC cards, which I think is gtx1070 and lower. If the price different between 1650 & 1660 a huge amount then maybe you buy. It wasn't priced very affordable for what it actually does. slower than the 3 year old GTX1060, old NVENC. It was seen as such bad value maybe Nvidia changed it's price. I am recollecting the launch disappointment.

(update 3rd edit): Nvidia's site itself says that the 1650 uses the "Votla" encoder!

Getting the 1660. Figured out the details for install/drivers/etc.

Thanks Bob for the heads up! Great direction.