NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 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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$ 320.00

$ 98.48

$ 221.52 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

1169% significantly better overall score

287 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

66 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

1007% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

546 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

1046% significantly higher Blender score

48.76 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

45558 points

1213% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

3469 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

668% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

2446 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

913% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4712 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

1137% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4293 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

683% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

2400 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

1002% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4552 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

942% 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

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

220% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

64 W

134% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

1172% significantly higher pixel rate

8.46 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

496% significantly higher texture rate

33.86 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

400% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

274% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

385th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

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

4.5

GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GTX 650 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1070 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 650 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1070 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1070 has significantly more memory with 8 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 1070 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1070 is faster than the GeForce GTX 650.