Question gtx 1650 super power consumption

[tiv_smiles]

i have a 1650 super and it consumes about 5 watts at idle and it also consumes about 8-10 watts in games such as forza horizon 5. and i also notice that my gpu underpeforms way less than what i see on benchmarks. my cpu is a ryzen 5 3400g is there any bottleneck going on or whats wrong?

 

[Darkbreeze]

"Benchmarks" depend entirely on the specific system. What Windows version? How much memory is installed? How fast that memory is? What the timings/XMP profile are configured to for the memory? How much garbage is installed on the system in terms of additional applications, mods, overlays, how old the OS installation is, etc.

You have to understand as well that for most "benchmarks" you see, those are being achieved on basically "lab clean" Windows installations that have nothing more than a clean install of the OS and whatever game or benchmark they are running, which makes a big difference when comparing it to some daily driver system.

No, there should not be any significant bottleneck due to your 1650 Super and 3400G. They are pretty fairly matched.

What does the rest of your hardware configuration consist of?

What is your motherboard model? Memory kit model? Exact power supply model? Storage device models? Case model? CPU cooler model? How many case fans and how is each of them configured, as intake or exhaust? What Windows version are you running?

What is your current motherboard BIOS version? Have you gone to the product support page for your motherboard lately, or ever, and downloaded the latest network adapter and audio controller drivers? Have you gone to the AMD website and downloaded/installed the latest chipset drivers for your CPU/motherboard, or the latest ones from your motherboard product page? Have you updated to the latest Nvidia drivers for your graphics card and if so, have you tried using the DDU to do a clean install of the latest drivers for it?

Have you checked your thermal readings for both the CPU and graphics card using HWinfo to see if maybe there is a thermal throttling problem?

What and where are you seeing your graphics card "underperform"? Is this in a game and if so what game? Is it in a benchmark and if so what benchmark?

If it's in game, have you checked to see if there are updates or patches available for that game that you have not yet installed or updated to?

How OLD is your Windows installation, or rather, when was the last time a clean install was done?

 

[tiv_smiles]

my ram is 3200 mhz 16gb corsair i did a clean windows install about 20 days ago so i dont have alot of programs on my pc

my motherboard is Gigabyte B450M DS3H-CF dont know the models for my power supply ram and pretty much everything else cpu cooler is stock i have 4, 2intake 2out

i have the latest drivers for my bios gpu and cpu i tried ddu and did a clean driver install i used hwinfo and its not thermal throttling

and my gpu underpeforms in games because when i watch many youtube videos the people who benchmark the 1650 super get 30-40% more fps than me and its both in benchmarks and in games

 

[Math Geek]

my 1650 super tops out at about 100w during a stress test. running a game sees around 75w or so on average.

if you're only seeing 10w used then something is off for sure.

perhaps the IGP from the 3400g is being used and not the 1650 super. are you sure you have the IGP disabled and the discrete card set as default?

that would be my first guess as to what might be going on.

 

[tiv_smiles]

igpu turned off

 

[Darkbreeze]

Well, if you're sure you have the display cable attached to the graphics card and not the motherboard, then that couldn't be the problem anyhow.

Do you have the latest driver for your graphics card installed, downloaded directly from Nvidia?

Did you buy this graphics card new or used, and when? Has it ever worked correctly or has it always had this problem since you've had it?

 

[tiv_smiles]

i have the latest drivers the hdmi is connected to my gpu and igpu is turned off did ddu nothing happened i bought this gpu brand new about 4 years ago and i guess its been happening eversince and i just never really cared about it until now

 

[Darkbreeze]

You still haven't answered what your current motherboard BIOS version is.

Or what the model of your PSU is. Those are both very important questions, and ones that matter because they are OFTEN the source of problems.

 

[Avro Arrow]

If you bought the card new four years ago, there's really not much that you can do about it now. I suppose that you could try overclocking it to force-feed it more juice and that might help but other than that, I can't think of anything.

To be fair, it's a GTX 1650 Super, a card that's three generations old and was considered weak when it came out. It's not going to be very good no matter what you do to it, especially with that paltry 4GB of VRAM. Like, this card is about as potent as one of my old R9 Furies from 2015!

If you don't want to spend anything, try overclocking it as I said. If it does what you need it to, then good enough! If it doesn't, just get an RX 6600 because it costs only $200, has eight gigabytes of VRAM instead of only four and is 63% faster than the GTX 1650 Super right out of the box.

As for power draw, the TDP of the GTX 1650 is 100W and the TDP of the RX 6600 is 132W. TechPowerUp recommends a 300W PSU for both so whatever you're currently using should be just fine for an RX 6600.

 

[Darkbreeze]

None of what you just posted would explain why a 100w card is only using 10w under a gaming load though. This pretty much has to be a faulty card issue, or a firmware issue, or a PSU issue, or a motherboard issue, if it's not related to drivers which it doesn't SEEM to be.

But not even being able to get basic information like what the current motherboard BIOS is, makes it just about impossible to even try and start fielding guesses.