Mining on the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 video card: tuning and overclocking

Back in 2018, Nvidia released a new line of GeForce video cards running on graphicsTuring processors. After the announcement of the top model, the "green" continued to work in this direction, going down to the budget segment of GPU-devices that are part of the GeForce RTX and GeForce GTX lines.

In the spring of 2019, the presentation of the cheapest video accelerator created on the Turing architecture took place, calledGeForce GTX 1650.

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Before you decide to build a farm fromgraphics cards, we immediately notice that now it is more profitable to invest in cloud mining services, where you rent the power of the same video cards and ASICs, but they are located in a remote data center and are serviced by specialists of this service, thereby freeing you from solving a heap of tasks accompanying the process mining. The rating of cloud mining services is available here.

The GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card is designed for high-resolution gamingFull HDat not very high graphics settings, but we are naturally more interested in the question of how effective mining will be on the GTX 1650. Let's look at the capabilities of a potential rig.

Specifications

To clearly show the difference between suitable and unsuitable hardware for mining, let's try to compare the video card with the 1030.

GPU Model	Nvidia GTX 1650	Nvidia GTX 1030
Core	TU117	GP108
Process technology (μm)	0.012	0.014
Number of transistors	4700	unknow
Core frequency	1485-1665	1227-1468
Memory frequency	2000 (8000)	1502 (6008)
Frequency of shrader units	1485-1665	1227-1468
Number of shrader units	869	384
TMU	56	24
Bus and memory type	128-bit GDDR5	62-bit GDDR5
Memory bandwidth (GB / s)	128	48.06
ROP	32	8
Fill Rate (Mpix / s)	53280	11740
Fill Rate (Mtex / s)	93240	35230
DirectX	12 (12_1)	12
Shaders model	6.3	5.0
Video memory, Gb	4	2
Power consumption Watt	75	30
Connection interface	PCI-E 3.0	PCI-E 3.0

In terms of its parameters, the GTX 1650 is superior toonly 1030, but also the GTX 1050 Ti GPU, which is quite popular among miners. We can immediately say that mining on the GTX 1650 is quite possible and will be quite profitable. Let's try to find out which manufacturer produced the best 1650 for mining and which coins are profitable to mine with it.

Which manufacturer of 1650 graphics card should I choose for mining?

If you visually compare GPUsGTX 1650 MSI, Palit and Gigabyte, it is difficult to give preference to anyone right away. Each of the video cards has a full-fledged cooling system, but no additional power is installed anywhere. Overclocking potential will depend on the manufacturer of the video memory on the GPU device.

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Help for beginners. Video memory can be from companies:

• Samsung;
• Hynix;
• Micron;
• Elpida

Companies involved in the production of video cards, selectivelyThey purchase memory chips for their products from different companies. Therefore, video cards of the same model can have video memory installed from different manufacturers.

Important!!! Considered the best for miningSamsung, but determine what memory is installed on the gpu,find out until that time until you connect it to your computer is impossible. However, the difference in overclocking potential for different types of memory is not high. When choosing the best GTX 1650 for mining, focus on cost and warranty.

What to mine at 1650? We determine the most profitable algorithm

Now let's choose what to mine at 1650 by looking at the test results.

Algorithm	Hashrate GTX 1650
Ethash 4GB	16-17 Mh / s
Zcash	23-25 ​​Sol / s
Beam	7-8 Sol / s
Equihash 210.9	100 Sol / s
X16r	9-11 Mh / s
X16rt (Veil and Gin)	9-10 Mh / s

It must be said right away that if you are goingrun Ethereum mining on 1650, then nothing will work for you. Green cards with 4GB of video memory cannot work on Ethereum pools. In this regard, Nvidia products lag behind competitors. Old RX 570 4GB still mine Ether on a stripped-down DAG file at a speed of about 14 Mh / s, but 1650, alas, cannot do that. The most profitable coin at the beginning of 2021 disappears. But green cards are so good because they have a wider range of beneficial algorithms than AMD, which are jokingly called "semi-ASICs".

By opening popular web services for calculating mining profitability, for exampleWhatToMine,to find out how much 1650 brings in by miningother cryptocurrencies, you will not find it in the table. And this is no wonder, video cards of this level are still more suitable for a budget gaming computer than for a mining farm. And don't even get me started on how profitable dual mining is on these graphics cards.

Dual mining on 1650, just like any othervideo card is currently not relevant. All coins mined in conjunction with Ethereum are profitable only for ASIC miners. By turning on dual, you will receive additional payments of several cents per day, and at the same time the farm will heat up more and consume more electricity. An absolutely pointless activity. Double mining may become profitable again when new, more profitable coins become available, but given that it's summer, even then it's not worth running.

However, launch combined miningclassic Ether paired with a Zilliqa coin at 1650 is still possible. But at the current rates of ETC and ZIL, this mining option for these video cards will not be the most optimal. After the November 51% attack (it must be said that it was very successful for hackers), the Ether Classic payment network almost ceased to exist. Although the developers are full of optimism about the future of their project, not all members of the crypto community trust ETC, which affects the coin’s exchange rate. However, the classic is still traded on most major exchanges, including Binance, which means that all is not lost yet.

As for the speed of cryptographic calculations of the GTX 1650, you can see the data on the Minersat resource, link: https://minerstat.com/hardware/nvidia-gtx-1650-super?lang=ru.

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So, let's see what kind of income mining on 1650 SUPER can bring.

1. Little-known VOLLAR coin $ 1.23;
2. ZANO (ProgPowZ) 1.11 $;
3. Rawencoin $ 1.11;
4. AION (Equihash210.9) $ 1.06;
5. SERO (ProgPowSERO) 0.79 $;
6. Aeternity (CuckooCycle) $ 0.65;
7. BitcoinZ (Zhash) $ 0.41;

If you subtract the cost of electricity, and in differentregions, it may differ significantly, the indicators will be even more modest. Accordingly, gpu 1650 without the Super prefix will have a lower hashrate. But the budget GTX 1050 Ti is about the same, or less. Nevertheless, it is present in the list of graphics adapters for WhatToMine mining. Cryptocurrency prices are steadily going up, so the profit can increase in a week.

Overclocking and lowering power consumption

You can adjust 1650 overclocking and mining consumption programmatically. The best option is MSI Afterburner. We'll tell you how to overclock 1650 for mining using this program.

It is necessary to gradually increase the indicatorscore and memory frequencies until the maximum hashrate is reached with stable operation of the GPU device. The amount of energy consumption is set usingPower limit. If you set the Power Limit to 100%, the hash rate will be maximum, but at the same time the mining consumption will increase for 1650. The optimal indicators will bePower Limit within 60-80%.

You can lower the voltage of the video card core using “Core clock".

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• AdjustMemory Clock.
• PutPower limit one hundred%.
• Move the core frequency slider all the way to the left
• Click on the three-step graph icon at the end of the lineCore Clock.
• In the opened graph of voltage toThe core frequency needs to move the beginning of the curve up so that at a voltage of 800 mV the core frequency is several megahertz higher than the maximum value during overclocking.
• ClickApplyto save your changes.

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You can set any frequency and voltage ratios acceptable for this video card.

Conclusion

GTX 1650 GPU has the best miningindicators than the GTX 1050 Ti and its main competitor AMD RX 560. Some authors of review articles even try to compare it with the RX 570, but alas, as a miner the 1650 will not be able to compete with this model, even given the lower consumption. Now we have February 2021, a new crypto boom is in full swing and all the cards that can somehow mine have skyrocketed in price.

Including 1650, you can buy it in storesat least 20,000 rubles. A farm of eight such cards, taking into account other components, will cost approximately 200,000 rubles. But for that kind of money you can put together a small rig of three3060 Tiand this will be a much better option. It is worth paying attention to1660 SUPERor new graphics adapters from AMD Navi series. If, of course, you find it at a reasonable price.

According to its technical characteristics, 1650 is quitesuitable for mining cryptocurrencies. But the minimum amount of video memory limits the list of available algorithms, so it is better to buy Nvidia 30-line cards or 1660SUPER cards. However, our job is to provide an overview and give recommendations, and then let everyone decide for himself.

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