ASUS GTX 1650 Phoenix Graphics Card Review

How Much Does It Cost?

The ASUS GTX 1650 Phoenix Graphics Card is available now. You can pick one up on Amazon.co.uk for just £138.99, or $154.99 in the US on Amazon.com. That’s about the same as the slightly faster RX570, but that depends on where you want to be with efficiency, as the GTX is going to be a noticeable amount cheaper to run.

Overview

Nvidia has done a great job with this chipset. It could be a tiny bit faster, but couldn’t every GPU? What impresses the most, however, is the extraordinarily low power consumption and temperatures. Running just off of the PCIe lanes 75 watts. This card gives performance way above what you would think is possible on such a tiny amount of power. It runs cool, quiet, and you don’t need a powerful PSU at all, which can save you a lot of money.

Performance

When it comes to gaming at high settings, we saw just shy of 60 FPS in pretty much all the 1080p tests, with few exceptions. For most, gaming at medium would be more than ideal for this card. Even more so, 1440p on some older games shouldn’t put up much of a fight. Then again, if this is just for Apex, Fortnite, Wow, or whatever, it’s going to smash through those easier than the games we benchmark.

Should I Buy One?

It’s a tough call, as of course the RX570 is still a bit faster. However, the RX570 is properly old tech these days with drivers that have all but maxed it out. The GTX 1650 still has time to grow, and I expect the gap will close a little further. Cheap to buy, incredibly efficient to run, and most impressively, it’s tiny too; perfect for those cheap SFF LAN gaming builds.