NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 289.00
$ 168.70
$ 120.30 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points
303% significantly better overall score
510 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

42 FPS
29 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS
26 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
18 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS
23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points
275% significantly higher Blender score
75.74 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31922 points
412% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
6223 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13527 points
250% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
3858 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33958 points
320% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
8083 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33939 points
336% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
7772 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13527 points
299% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
3383 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points
317% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
7995 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points
293% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
8246 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s
122% significantly higher memory bandwidth
86.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
110 W
9% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s
452% significantly higher pixel rate
14.85 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s
107% significantly higher texture rate
59.39 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152
49% significantly more shading units
768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

72
12% slightly more texture mapping units
64

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
200% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586
326th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB over the GeForce GTX 650 Ti.

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