NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 98.48

$ 300.52 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2457 points

756% significantly better overall score

287 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

377.89 points

675% significantly higher Blender score

48.76 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

34034 points

881% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

3469 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

14587 points

496% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

2446 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36416 points

672% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4712 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37241 points

767% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4293 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

14587 points

507% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

2400 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points

701% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4552 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points

646% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4783 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

1058 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

200% significantly more memory

2 GiB

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

140% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

64 W

87% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

82.03 Gigapixels/s

869% significantly higher pixel rate

8.46 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s

303% significantly higher texture rate

33.86 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

233% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

180th of 586

384th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs GeForce GTX 650 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 650 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 650 has a significantly lower TDP at 64 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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 6GB over the GeForce GTX 650.