Friday, February 7th 2020
Palit Releases GTX 1650 KalmX - a Passively Cooled, 0dB GPU
Palit has today released the latest addition to its KalmX passive series of graphics cards - the GTX 1650 KalmX. This graphics card is an ITX-sized, 178 mm long GPU that is designed for zero noise, passively cooled builds, where noise is the primary factor. With a heatsink consisting out of two heat-pipes and many fins, the cooling solution should be capable of cooling the 75 W TDP of the GTX 1650 GPU. The cold plate of the heatsink covers the GPU and VRMs to provide safe GPU operation. Being based on the reference design, this card features default speeds of 1485 MHz base, and 1665 MHz boost clocks. For IO, Palit opted to include three ports, where one is HDMI 2.0b and the other two are DisplayPort 1.4a. All the power needed is provided by the PCIe slot, so there are no external power connectors.
60 Comments on Palit Releases GTX 1650 KalmX - a Passively Cooled, 0dB GPU
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Gaming is only one possible use case for a CPU. CPU usage and power consumption is very very dependent on the game. Cooling usually is (or at least should be) geared toward worst case scenario.
Glad everyone hates on AMD for their TDP shenanigans.
Remember better cooler means higher TDP. Their CPUs are only rated for their TDP under the stock cooler.
Oh and I still think AMD did a good guy thing with the 5600XT they just did it badly.2060 KO with a special crippled board design built using failed 2070 dies. Uses more power, can't overclock, runs warmer, basically stock 2060 performance but it's cheap and screws AMD when it comes to price point comparisons. Also apparently great availability... *Cough*
Steve says it's a great workstation performance card though... While he signs a new beefy advertising contract with his friends at EVGA...
Hmm...
The board partners agreed, and AMD even left it open by lifting the max OC clocks.
AMD tried to make a shit situation better, but it went badly. The board partners waffling about are their own shit move.
Once again, your idiot conspiracy theory fails to hold any water.[citation needed]
It's a simple fact of the human condition. Steve like everyone else has built in bias it's a human condition. He has bills to pay, has at least one employee, and those things do impact.
He has shown and has been bought off completely on at least one case. I'll just keep referring to Thermal Grizzly sponsoring his channel and the ONLY thermal materials he uses are TG, which his 'friend' De8auer is heavily involved with. Would he have hated on the graphite pad used on the Radeon VII cooler if TG had their Carbonaut pads out? I suspect not.
There's a striking difference between his treatment of the Radeon VII and the EVGA 2060 KO. The cheap 2060 KO is a bad 2060 for gaming, it punishes buyers by using more power for the same performance and the overclocking is seriously crippled because the board hard locks the power limit. He releases a video praising the 2060 KO for having a 2070 core. He releases a video praising the impressive gains in workstation performance because it gets the 2070's better CUDA processors... While stalling on the video to list the drawbacks.
The Radeon VII is a garbage card because it's not a godly gaming card and it has a disgusting at the time graphite thermal pad. No tests done on it's 'workstation' performance.
The 2060 KO is marketed as a pure gaming card, so why the special treatment?
While Steve also brings up how he's friendly with the people and engineers at EVGA and gets behind the scenes looks at how EVGA makes superior cards from the reference boards.
Steve only uses NV for his work and personal machines...
Steve directly negotiates with the companies for those in video ads. There is no denying that, and based off what I can gather those companies will be more generous in those contracts based on how you treat the company. The funding can go up, go down, or stop entirely. It's called biting the hand that feeds. When are those contracts up for renewal? Is it odd that he's hammering companies that don't buy advertising and being a rabid dog for those that do? Maybe, maybe not.
Bias is bias and denying it's existence when it's so openly on display is just dumb.
Citation?
MSI, Sapphire, Powercolor gave those bioses to the reviewers. Asus has always said they'll release a Z series card with the bigger clocks.
That's why AMD raised the limits and didn't make it mandatory. It was a bit of an evil move because it means there's a real spread in the actual performance of the 5600XTs. 5600XT vs 5600XT OC vs 5600XT OC+
AMD messed up they shouldn't have released so many details, but at the same time, if they couldn't drop the prices of the 5500/5600 cards across the board they were hooped. Nvidia basically made the 5600XT irrelevant, and killed the 1660 at the same time. At the same time, the 5600XT OC+ gets dangerously close to the 5700. So it's definitely not a great move and is one that has the stink of razor thin margins.
I apologize for not being a devout follower of PC Jesus, but I will gleefully call out bias in any reviews or news and I don't care who writes it. I've even called out reviewers on here recently and in the past.
Edit:
I've dragged this off topic enough I will not be responding to this post going forward. I put on my flame suit and I enjoy roasting marshmallows.
The 2060 KO comparison... is not even a comparison. Nvidia knows better than to change perf and spec post launch; you always get what is on the box. They did not even do it to their law breaking GTX 970, it still says 4GB on the box and site after settling over the 3.5 GB issue go figure.
I am pro doing good business and being trustworthy, so that 970 will never be forgotten... And strongly reject bad practices and where NV has its 970, AMD has a new bag of tricks every god damn gen. And what they do release is almost always somehow not truly perfect. Only AIBs do it right, ever so rarely. And with this specific issue, not even AIBs can do it right...
So how about that passively cooled Palit card we'll never see in North America...
LoL
Every company pulls shitty stunts, tries to get ahead, tries to make the most money.
Nvidia burned me and millions when they cheaped out on the solder used to mate dies to packages. I had a 8800 GT that wasn't actually stable, so the AIB pushed a bios update that rolled the clocks back on the ram and the core. The bios update included a text file because you had to run it in DOS mode and manually enter the flash commands. Oh man what a bunch of cry babies hollering over a GUI flasher that most AIBs are making automatic and single click...
That 8800GT is likely why I am not being such a princess about AMD changing the max clocks. I do think the 2060 KrapOffer is worse because it's basically a gimped card designed solely to force AMD into an impossible position. Then you have some famous youboober(s) who are throwing their weight behind twisting it to match what a single AIB is whining about
What about the whole CPU clock boosting thing? I can brick an entire system with an MSI motherboard while flashing the bios, how is this suddenly new and scary? Are we just idiot sheeple who are supposed to act like a GPU bios flash is some dark and forbidden art...
I had an MSI 970 Gaming mobo, the VRM was a massive pile of garbage that actually melted the stock thermal pads when you dared to even attempt over clocking. It had a dozen Bios updates... I'm supposed to just buy MSI's crying?
It's the same shit just a different pile and certain parties aim to make more depending on the pile you scoop from.