My take aways ....
1. Since the 2xx series, AMD has very aggressively overclocked their cards "in the box". With the Super, it seems, nVidia is echoing this tactic.
2. I wouldn't expect RTX and DLSS to be available at this price point:
3.
Thank You for this !
Video memory size of 4 GB might sound low at first, but you have to consider that pricing matters a lot in this segment. Adding more memory would make the card more expensive, with little or no performance difference at 1080p Full HD. Looking at our performance numbers, we can definitely see reduced FPS at 4K resolution compared to cards with more memory, but I'm not seeing anything in our data that would suggest these cards are memory-bound at 1080p.
It seems low only if one doesn't read TPU and other sitest test results. TPU testing for the 3GB and 6GB 1060s showed no discernable difference in performance between the 3GB and 6 GB models at 1080p / 1440p ... same for the 680, 770 and 960 2GB and 4 GB models ..... test results show that again her for the 1 650S.
At this point in time, I am getting concerned about nVidia's dominance across too many price niche's ... OK, nVidia grabbed ownership of the top tier when both the 780 and 780 Ti outperformed AMDs offerings ... but the, with 9xx, the 970 was a market monster, alone selling more than twice all AMD cards combined. The with 10xx , the 1060 dominated giving them sole ownership of the top 4 tiers. The 1060 has the largest market share of any card with 14.95% (580 has 1.6%). It's also the fastest growing in market share up 0.46% this month. However never did I think I'd see the day that nVidia would own the sub $200 market segment. Here's a comparison between the MSI1650 Super against what we can expect from asn MSI 5500 based u rations between MSI 5700
Performance ...
MSI 1650 Super = 100% from Performance Summary x (71.1 / 63.6) OC .. = 111.44
Tested 5500 = 94% x (119.6 / 115.1)* =97.68
MSI 1650 Super has estimated 14% performance advantage overclocked.
* OC results taken from TPUs MSI 5700 test (3.9% is typical of AMD cards. 5700xXT was 3.3%
AIB 5550 is expected to use 31.5% more power than MSI 1650 Super.
Power ...
MSI 1650 Super Peak Gaming is 105 watts
Reference 550 is 121 watts x (259 / 227)* = 138 watts
* Power increase for AIB card taken from comparison on reference 5700 and MSI 5700
Temperature ...
MSI 1650 Super hits 63C @ Full Load w/ OC
5500 Temps are unknown
Noise ...
The MSI 1650 Super hist 0 dbA at idle and 27C under full load
The 5500 hits 27 dbA at idle and 32C under full load
That makes the 5500 reference 41% louder
The MSI 5700 had the same sound level as the reference 5700 card
Obviously, the projected results above can not be confirmed until specific model testing is performed. But projections by W1zzard and the above are by no means "a guess" when substantial data sets are available. This is how science and technical evaluations work. You base your projections and similar models and when said models perform consistently across various data sets, you can be reasonably confident in your results.
