Is it a Geforce GTX 1650 Mobile or a Max-Q?

I just ordered a laptop which was supposed to run a Geforce GTX 1650, but I'm thinking it might be a Max-Q.

I'm confused about the output of this command:

john@john-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -C display *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] <-- Mobile / Max-Q ? Mobile or Max-Q ? vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: a1 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0 resources: irq:138 memory:b2000000-b2ffffff memory:a0000000-afffffff memory:b0000000-b1ffffff ioport:5000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff

I've seen the Max-Q was around 20% less powerful but uses less energy and weighs less so I'm not sure it's a bad thing, but I just want to make sure.

1 Answer

You are truly using the Max-Q version of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile.

From the articleNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q :

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 with Max-Q design is a mobile graphics card that is based on the Turing architecture (TU117 chip). Compared to the faster RTX 2000 GPUs (e.g. RTX 2060), the 1650 integrates no Raytracing or Tensor cores. Compared to the desktop version, the mobile and Max-Q versions use all 1024 shaders of the TU117 chip. It is designed for thin and light laptops and about 10-15% slower than a regular GTX 1650 for laptops (depending on the cooling capabilities). According to the specifications, the Max-Q variant clocks 20% slower for the base speed and 27% for the boost speed.