The GeForce GTX 1650 from Nvidia, which has been available for two years, has surpassed all other graphics cards on Newegg and Amazon's best-seller lists. The GeForce GTX 1650 has seen a significant increase in popularity as a result of the current shortages in the market.

Over two years ago, Nvidia introduced the GeForce GTX 1650 as the company's successor to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. However, in our review of the GPU, it came up short mostly. Simply said, it couldn't compete with AMD's Radeon RX 570 in terms of price to performance at the time it was introduced in 2007. The GeForce GTX 1650's main saving grace was its low power consumption of only 75W, which allowed some variants to be released on the market without the need for any auxiliary power sources.

It is likely that the GTX 1650's popularity is due to a number of variables, the most significant of which being that Nvidia continues to manufacture its earlier Turing-based graphics cards, including the GeForce GTX 1650, GTX 1650 Super, GTX 1660, GTX 1660 Super, and RTX 2060.

One other important thing to consider is the fact that the GeForce GTX 1650 is available in a variety of configurations, which makes it difficult to generalize. Nvidia now produces four different GeForce GTX 1650 graphics cards, each with three different dies. First and foremost, the TU117 and GDDR5 RAM were included in the launch version. Then, Nvidia launched an improved variant with GDDR6 memory, which was later discontinued (giving it 50 percent more memory bandwidth). Finally, the chipmaker released two new GDDR6 versions, one of which used the TU116 die with an updated NVENC encoder and the other which used the same die as the GeForce RTX 2060. The TU116 die was used in both variants.

Nvidia is employing three different dies and two distinct memory types for the GeForce GTX 1650, which we believe will allow Nvidia to create GeForce GTX 1650 in large volumes reasonably rapidly. In addition, the chipmaker can salvage failed TU116 and TU106 dies and repurpose them into GeForce GTX 1650 graphics cards instead of discarding them, which would waste resources and reduce the amount of raw materials available.

Despite the GeForce GTX 1650's widespread popularity among consumers and manufacturers alike, scalper prices for the graphics card are nowhere near the $150 MSRP that the Turing-powered graphics card originally sold for. At $200" more, yes 350 USD. 

GeForce GTX 1650 Is Now Best Selling GPU On Newegg