Back in 2022, Nvidia released a new lineup of GeForce graphics cards powered by Turing GPUs. After the announcement of the top model, the “greens” continued to work in this direction, moving down to the budget segment of GPU devices included in the GeForce RTX and GeForce GTX lines.
In the spring of 2022, the presentation of the cheapest video accelerator created on the Turing architecture, called GeForce GTX 1650 .
Before you decide to assemble a farm of video cards, let us immediately note that now it is more profitable to invest in cloud mining services, where you rent the power of the same video cards and ASICs, but they are located in a remote data center and are serviced by specialists of this service, thereby freeing you from solving a bunch of problems that accompany the mining process. The rating of cloud mining services is available here.
The GeForce GTX 1650 video card is designed for games in Full HD with not very high graphics settings, but we are, naturally, more interested in the question of how effective mining will be on the GTX 1650. Let's look at the capabilities of a potential rig.
Specifications
To clearly show the difference between hardware suitable and unsuitable for mining, let’s try to compare a video card with a 1030.
| GPU model | Nvidia GTX 1650 | Nvidia GTX 1030 |
| Core | TU117 | GP108 |
| Process technology (µm) | 0,012 | 0,014 |
| Number of transistors | 4700 | unknow |
| Core frequency | 1485–1665 | 1227-1468 |
| Memory frequency | 2000 (8000) | 1502 (6008) |
| Shrader block frequency | 1485–1665 | 1227-1468 |
| Number of shrader units | 869 | 384 |
| TMU | 56 | 24 |
| Bus and memory type | 128-bit GDDR5 | 62-bit GDDR5 |
| Bandwidth (Gb/s) | 128 | 48,06 |
| ROP | 32 | 8 |
| Fill Rate (Mpix/s) | 53280 | 11740 |
| Fill Rate (Mtex/s) | 93240 | 35230 |
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | 12 |
| Shaders Model | 6.3 | 5.0 |
| Video memory volume, Gb | 4 | 2 |
| Power consumption Watt | 75 | 30 |
| Connection interface | PCI-E 3.0 | PCI-E 3.0 |
In its parameters, the GTX 1650 is superior not only to the 1030, but also to the GTX 1050 Ti GPU, which is quite popular among miners. We can immediately say that mining on the GTX 1650 is quite possible and will be quite profitable. Let's try to find out which manufacturer produced the best 1650 for mining and which coins are profitable to mine with it.
Tests in games
Now let's look at how the GTX 1650 video card performs in various modern games. Tests were carried out on a standard version of NVIDIA and an Intel Core i7 Coffee Lake system processor. All games were launched at a resolution of 1920 × 1080, with graphics settings set to maximum.
| A game | Minimum FPS | Average FPS |
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 28 | 32 |
| Battlefield V | 40 | 55 |
| GTA V | 30 | 31 |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 35 | 60 |
| Fallout 4 | 49 | 76 |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 52 | 61 |
| PUBG | 40 | 65 |
| Metro Exodus | 15 | 26 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 35 | 45 |
| Resident Evil 2 | 46 | 62 |
| World of Tanks | 37 | 64 |
| Dota 2 | 30 | 72 |
| War Thunder | 30 | 72 |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 20 | 36 |
| Rust | 24 | 33 |
From the tests it is clear that the card maintains good graphics quality even at maximum settings. Reducing them will improve FPS and performance, especially in more demanding games.
Comparison of Geforce GTX 1650 in the game Shadow of the Tomb Raider with other video cards
Which 1650 video card manufacturer should I choose for mining?
If you visually compare the GTX 1650 MSI, Palit and Gigabyte GPUs, it is difficult to immediately give preference to anyone. Each of the video cards has a full-fledged cooling system, but no additional power is installed anywhere. Overclocking potential will depend on the manufacturer of the video memory on the GPU device.
Help for beginners. Video memory can be from companies:
- Samsung;
- Hynix;
- Micron;
- Elpida.
Companies that produce video cards selectively purchase memory chips for their products from different companies. Therefore, video cards of the same model can have video memory installed from different manufacturers.
Important!!! Samsung is considered the best for mining , but it is impossible to determine what memory is installed on the gpu until you connect it to the computer. However, the difference in overclocking potential between different types of memory is not high. When choosing the best GTX 1650 for mining, focus on the cost and warranty period.
What to mine on 1650? Determining the most profitable algorithm
Now let’s choose what to mine for 1650 by looking at the testing results.
| Algorithm | GTX 1650 hashrate |
| Ethash 4GB | 16-17 Mh/s |
| Zcash | 23-25 Sol/s |
| Beam | 7-8 Sol/s |
| Equihash 210.9 | 100 Sol/s |
| X16r | 9-11 Mh/s |
| X16rt (Veil and Gin) | 9-10 Mh/s |
It must be said right away that if you are going to start mining Ethereum on 1650, then you will not succeed. Green cards with 4GB video memory cannot work on Ethereum pools. In this regard, Nvidia's products lag behind competitors. The old RX 570 4GB still mine Ether on a stripped-down DAG file at a speed of about 14 Mh/s, but alas, the 1650 cannot do that. The most profitable coin at the beginning of 2022 is no longer needed. But the good thing about green cards is that they have a wider range of profitable algorithms than AMD, which are jokingly called “semi-ASICs”.
Having opened popular web services for calculating mining profitability, for example WhatToMine , to find out how much 1650 brings in by mining other cryptocurrencies, you will not find it in the table. And this is no wonder, video cards of this level are still more suitable for a budget gaming computer than for a mining farm. And don't even get me started on how beneficial dual mining is on these graphics cards.
Dual mining on the 1650, like on any other video card, is not relevant at the moment. All coins mined in conjunction with Ethereum are profitable only for ASIC miners. By turning on dual, you will receive additional payments of several cents per day, and at the same time the farm will heat up more and consume more electricity. An absolutely pointless activity. Double mining may become profitable again when new, more profitable coins become available, but given that it's summer, even then it's not worth running.
However, it is still possible to launch combined mining of classic Ethereum paired with the Zilliqa coin at 1650. But at the current rates of ETC and ZIL, this mining option for these video cards will not be the most optimal. After the November 51% attack (it must be said that it was very successful for hackers), the Ether Classic payment network almost ceased to exist. Although the developers are full of optimism about the future of their project, not all members of the crypto community trust ETC, which affects the coin’s exchange rate. However, the classic is still traded on most major exchanges, including Binance, which means that all is not lost yet.
As for the speed of cryptographic calculations of the GTX 1650, you can view the data on the Minersat resource, link: https://minerstat.com/hardware/nvidia-gtx-1650-super?lang=ru.
So, let’s see what kind of income mining on the 1650 SUPER can bring.
- Little-known coin VOLLAR $1.23;
- ZANO (ProgPowZ) $1.11;
- Rawencoin $1.11;
- AION (Equihash210.9) $1.06;
- SERO (ProgPowSERO) $0.79;
- Aeternity (CuckooCycle) $0.65;
- BitcoinZ (Zhash) $0.41;
If you subtract the cost of electricity, which can vary significantly in different regions, the figures will be even more modest. Accordingly, gpu 1650 without the Super prefix will have a lower hashrate. But the budget GTX 1050 Ti card gives out about the same, or even less. Nevertheless, it is present in the list of graphics adapters for mining WhatToMine. Cryptocurrency prices are steadily rising, so within a week your profit may increase.
Overclocking and reducing power consumption
You can adjust 1650 overclocking and mining consumption programmatically. MSI Afterburner is the best option. We'll tell you how to overclock 1650 for mining using this program.
It is necessary to gradually increase the core and memory frequencies until the maximum hashrate is reached with stable operation of the gpu device. The amount of energy consumption is set using Power Limit . If you set the Power Limit to 100%, the hash rate will be maximum, but at the same time the mining consumption will increase for 1650. The optimal Power Limit indicators will be within 60-80% .
You can lower the video card core voltage using “ Core Clock ”.
- Adjust Memory Clock .
- Set Power Limit to 100% .
- Move the core frequency slider all the way to the left
- Click the three-step graph icon at the end of the Core Clock row.
- In the graph of voltage to core frequency ratios that opens, you need to move the beginning of the curve up so that at a voltage of 800 mV the core frequency is several megahertz higher than the maximum value during overclocking.
- Click Apply to save your changes.
You can set any frequency and voltage ratios acceptable for this video card.
Preparing to overclock your video card using MSI Afterburner
To overclock the video card we will use the MSI Afterburner program. This is free software developed by MSI and based on the RivaTuner program. The MSI Afterburner program allows you to overclock any modern video cards from NVIDIA and AMD, starting from NVIDIA GeForce 8X00 and AMD Radeon 3000. You can download this program from the official MSI website or on the Guru3d website.
Installing MSI Afterburner should not pose any difficulties. Just agree to the license agreement and install.
At the stage of selecting components, we do not change anything and continue the installation.
Once the installation of MSI Afterburner is complete, you will be prompted to install RivaTuner Statistics Server. We agree and install.
After installing and launching MSI Afterburner, you should see an interface similar to the one in the screenshot below.
If in your case the MSI Afterburner interface is different from the screenshots, then you can change it in the settings. To do this, click on the settings button, go to the “Interface” tab and activate the “Default MSI Afterburner v3 skin” option.
You also need to enable all compatibility properties in the settings. To do this, go to the “Basic” tab and check the boxes as shown in the screenshot below. After this, you can close the MSI Afterburner program settings and proceed directly to overclocking the video card.
We also need the FurMark program to overclock the video card. This is a free video card stress test that can be downloaded from the official website. Installing FurMark is also not difficult, just run the installer, agree and install.
After launching FurMark, you will see a window similar to this.
FurMark has graphics settings and a “GPU Stress test” button that starts testing.
