Gigabyte GTX 1650 Gaming OC Graphics Card Review

A Closer Look

It’s not the fanciest looking card in the world, but it’s a familiar looking design for the Gigabyte range. I suspect they’ve simply retooled one of their existing coolers to fit the card, rather than a new design. Of course, that’s fine as it helps keep the cost down. However, it’s also one of the biggest cooler we’ve seen fitted to this chipset, which should have a big impact.

The shroud is plastic, but it’s got a nice geometric shape to it and lots of airflow too. You can see on the interior there is a large heatsink, with a few copper pipes hitting all the major components throughout.

Backplate

This isn’t a metal backplate, but rather a plastic one. It’s more of a shroud really, and it is simply there to tidy up the aesthetics and little else. However, it does a good job of that, and the whole thing looks pretty clean and tidy.

The GTX 1650 chipset can run through just the PCIe lane power. However, an additional 6-pin header is added here to stability, and to give us more overclocking headroom.

The card is a dual-slot design, although at the back, the upper section is just ventilation. On the bottom row, you’ll find a few HDMI and DisplayPort connections, giving you flexibility for multi-display setups; albeit for work, I doubt this card can do multi-monitor gaming that well.

Size Comparison

Just for perspective, these are both GTX 1650 cards. The Palit is the smallest one we have, while the Gigabyte model is on the right. It is crazy to thing these cards have the same chipset!