In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon RX 5500 8GB are noticeably better than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Ultra.

The RX 5500 has a 260 MHz higher core clock speed and 72 more Texture Mapping Units than the GTX 1650. This results in the RX 5500 providing 134.8 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The RX 5500 has a 260 MHz higher core clock speed than the GTX 1650 and the same number of Render Output Units. This results in the RX 5500 providing 8.3 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The GTX 1650 was released less than a year after the RX 5500, and so they are likely to have similar driver support for optimizing performance when running the latest games.

Both GPUs exhibit very powerful performance, so it probably isn't worth upgrading from one to the other, as both are capable of running even the most demanding games at the highest settings.

The RX 5500 has 4096 MB more video memory than the GTX 1650, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. However, overall, the GTX 1650 has superior memory performance.

The GTX 1650 has 32.3 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the RX 5500, which means that the memory performance of the GTX 1650 is noticeably better than the RX 5500.

The GeForce GTX 1650 Ultra has 896 Shader Processing Units and the Radeon RX 5500 8GB has 2048. However, the actual shader performance of the GTX 1650 is 1425 and the actual shader performance of the RX 5500 is 2456. The RX 5500 having 1031 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the RX 5500 delivers a significantly smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the GTX 1650.

The RX 5500 transistor size technology is 5 nm (nanometers) smaller than the GTX 1650. This means that the RX 5500 is expected to run very slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the GTX 1650.

The GeForce GTX 1650 Ultra requires 90 Watts to run and the Radeon RX 5500 8GB requires 120 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 400 Watts for the GTX 1650 and a PSU with at least 450 Watts for the RX 5500. The RX 5500 requires 30 Watts more than the GTX 1650 to run. The difference is not significant enough for the RX 5500 to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the GTX 1650.