NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 vs NVIDIA GeForce 930M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 930M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

287 points

315 points

9% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

Identical

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS

5 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

5 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

4 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.76 points

50.85 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

3469 points

5123 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4712 points

5333 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4293 points

4601 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4552 points

5294 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4783 points

0.80% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4745 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1058 MHz

14% slightly higher core clock speed

928 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

80 GB/s

455% significantly higher memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

64 W

33 W

93% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

8.46 Gigapixels/s

12% slightly higher pixel rate

7.53 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigatexels/s

49% significantly higher texture rate

22.58 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

Identical

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

384th of 586

372nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 650 vs GeForce 930M comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce 930M beats the GeForce GTX 650 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 650 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.

In addition, the GeForce 930M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 650 at 64 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce 930M is better than the GeForce GTX 650.