Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Uses Previous Generation Video Encoder

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 uses the Volta video encoder, an encoder with poorer results than the newer Turing encoder. It is the only Turing video card to date without the new encoder.

The use of the Volta-nvenc is apparent from the specification page of the GeForce GTX 1650. It is striking that Nvidia uses this encoder for the video card. The other video cards from the GTX 1600 and RTX 2000 series do have the new Turing nvenc on board.

A twitter user asked Nvidia what consequences this has for the performance of the video card. According to the video card manufacturer, the Volta-nvenc performs ‘comparable’ to the encoder of the Pascal video cards. According to the tweet, the Turing NVenc is fifteen percent more efficient and has new features to counteract artifacts. That is, the 1650 can record and stream worse images than if it came with the new nvenc. Why Nvidia supplies the GTX 1650 video card with the older nvenc is not clear.

The GeForce GTX 1650 was announced on Tuesday and has 896 cudacores and 4GB gddr5 memory. The card has a TDP of 75 watts and a suggested retail price of 161 euros, including VAT. It is a GTX video card with a Turing GPU and therefore has no RT cores for ray tracing.