NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 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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$ 229.39

$ 98.48

$ 130.91 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points

1172% significantly better overall score

287 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

75 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5419 points

892% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

546 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points

1381% significantly higher Blender score

48.76 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

60503 points

1644% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

3469 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

1082% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4712 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points

1088% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4293 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

1215% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4552 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

1073% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4783 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

44% significantly 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

192.1 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

85.68 Gigapixels/s

912% significantly higher pixel rate

8.46 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

363% significantly higher texture rate

33.86 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

266% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

175% 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

133rd of 586

384th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

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 1660 vs GeForce GTX 650 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 650 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1660 has a significantly 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 1660 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 650 has a significantly lower TDP at 64 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 is better than the GeForce GTX 650.