In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 are significantly better than the AMD Radeon HD 7870 DirectCU II 2GB Edition.

The GTX 1650 has a 400 MHz higher core clock speed than the HD 7870, but the HD 7870 has 24 more Texture Mapping Units than the GTX 1650. As a result, the HD 7870 exhibits a 1.8 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the GTX 1650. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The GTX 1650 has a 400 MHz higher core clock speed than the HD 7870 and the same number of Render Output Units. This results in the GTX 1650 providing 12.8 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The GTX 1650 was released over three years more recently than the HD 7870, and so the GTX 1650 is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the HD 7870 when running the latest games.

Both GPUs exhibit very powerful performance, so it probably isn't worth upgrading from one to the other, as both are capable of running even the most demanding games at the highest settings.

The GTX 1650 has 2048 MB more video memory than the HD 7870, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the GTX 1650 also has superior memory performance overall.

The GTX 1650 has 101.4 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the HD 7870, which means that the memory performance of the GTX 1650 is massively better than the HD 7870.

The GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 has 896 Shader Processing Units and the Radeon HD 7870 DirectCU II 2GB Edition has 1280. However, the actual shader performance of the GTX 1650 is 1425 and the actual shader performance of the HD 7870 is 1099. The GTX 1650 having 326 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the GTX 1650 delivers a massively smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the HD 7870.

The GTX 1650 transistor size technology is 16 nm (nanometers) smaller than the HD 7870. This means that the GTX 1650 is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the HD 7870.

The GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 requires 75 Watts to run but there is no entry for the Radeon HD 7870 DirectCU II 2GB Edition. We would recommend a PSU with at least 400 Watts for the GTX 1650.