NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M, 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
23% slightly better overall score
232 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.76 points
43% significantly higher Blender score
33.95 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

3469 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
2783 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4712 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3590 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4293 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
3564 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4552 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
3852 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4783 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3955 points

Specifications

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
7% slightly higher pixel rate
7.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigatexels/s
7% slightly higher texture rate
31.36 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
Identical
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
Identical
32

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
100% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

386th of 586
407th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2013 April

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 GT 740M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 650 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 740M in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GT 740M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 650 at 64 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 650 over the GeForce GT 740M.

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