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That +/- 12% under 1080p should greatly benefit from a product like this, at the right price. Unfortunately it's a no-go for them at the moment.
The percentage may be higher. I haven't ever received the notification from the Steam program that asks people to contribute to the Hardware Survey, so I'm not represented in Steam's statistics. Imagine how many other very active Steam users haven't received Steam's survey.
 
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That +/- 12% under 1080p should greatly benefit from a product like this, at the right price. Unfortunately it's a no-go for them at the moment.
Nearly 6% on 1366 (which is basically a laptop 720p), and 2% on 900p. That's 8%. While not the majority, I wouldn't write them off, yet.
 
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The percentage may be higher. I haven't ever received the notification from the Steam program that asks people to contribute to the Hardware Survey, so I'm not represented in Steam's statistics. Imagine how many other very active Steam users haven't received Steam's survey.
It is definitely higher because of this, and there are certainly more people out there that don't use steam at all not represented in this statistic.

Nearly 6% on 1366 (which is basically a laptop 720p), and 2% on 900p. That's 8%. While not the majority, I wouldn't write them off, yet.
I wouldn't either. That's a high number considering the amount of gamers in the world.
 

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In some games - odyssey and warzone. It seems that lowest settings provides worse FPS than the one step above. maybe because it tries to downscale and it requires additional work to be done. So it could be making it worse. Noticed this on both my GTX 760 and 2070 i think. now on the GTX 760 I play mostly at 720p or 900p whenever possible, but it's not worth it, simply torture. This card replaces integrated video. and should cost respectively to make sense, like the difference between I5-12100 and 12100F, plus the 4GB buffer.
 
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I expected a sligtly better 4K performance. :D
 
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In some games - odyssey and warzone. It seems that lowest settings provides worse FPS than the one step above. maybe because it tries to downscale and it requires additional work to be done. So it could be making it worse. Noticed this on both my GTX 760 and 2070 i think. now on the GTX 760 I play mostly at 720p or 900p whenever possible, but it's not worth it, simply torture. This card replaces integrated video. and should cost respectively to make sense, like the difference between I5-12100 and 12100F, plus the 4GB buffer.
It's torture on a higher resolution monitor, but it's normal on a small (laptop) panel that has it as its native resolution.
 
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It's always good to see a low-end product review here. Not everyone is interested in playing latest AAA games in 4K, there are much more casual gamers or just company workers that play lan parties after their working hours, at work :p
I, personally, swore to never buy a GPU again as long as they are that expensive. Everything seems pointless to me after buying a brand new 1080Ti FTW3 with 5years warranty extension directly from EVGA for less than 600€ in 2018. So if I was in the gpu market right now, I'd be very interested to buy a low end gpu just to play casual stuff until this paranoia ends.
 

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It's possible flash the BIOS with a gtx 1650 sample? Or something?
I might be possible to flash, but you can't unlock the gpu cores, or increase the memory bus
 
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And flashing the card will change something like improved performance?
If you can't enable shader cores, then it'll do absolutely nothing. Even if you can, you'll be limited by the 64-bit memory bus.

People, please, stop believing the fairy tale that BIOS flashing does anything good to your graphics cards! Even in the best case scenario, it does nothing, while it can completely break it in worse cases. The factory BIOS is fine, leave it alone!
 
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Leave Britney I mean BIOS alone!!!
 
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27 FPS on The Witcher 3 (2015)

This is a total embarassment. The fact this card is in the Geforce lineup is a Joke. You cannot even play 7 year old games at 1080p. I guess if you like playing minesweeper in 4k for 200 dollars this card is for you.

I hate being so negative but its hard to find something positive here.
 

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Nvidia to AMD. Here, hold my beer for some time.
 
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Nvidia to AMD. Here, hold my beer for some time.
Given the performance of this GPU, AMD would struggle to catch Nvidia's beer as the arm holding it would be moving so choppily and unevenly ;)
 
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This is blasphemy! This is madness!
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Benchmark Scores it sucks even more less now ;)
Given the performance of this GPU, AMD would struggle to catch Nvidia's beer as the arm holding it would be moving so choppily and unevenly ;)
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I hate being so negative but its hard to find something positive here.
Ah don't worry, while forums like these usually love to be cynical about everything, this is a valid thing to be negative about. This thing shouldn't even exist.
 
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Low-end GPUs need Genshin Impact benchmarks. ;)
 
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