NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 2 GB, 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

28% slightly better overall score

223 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

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

3 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

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

3469 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

2901 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2446 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

2083 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4712 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3649 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4293 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3524 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2400 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

2223 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4552 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3991 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4783 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3524 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1058 MHz

11% slightly higher core clock speed

950 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

Identical

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

80 GB/s

25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

64 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

64 W

50 W

28% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

8.46 Gigapixels/s

11% slightly higher pixel rate

7.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigatexels/s

11% slightly higher texture rate

30.4 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

Identical

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

384th of 586

414th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 650 vs GeForce GTX 660M benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 660M graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 650 in our tests.

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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 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 660M has a slightly lower TDP at 50 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 660M is better than the GeForce GTX 650.