NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Price

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$ 98.48

$ 310.48 significantly less expensive

$ 408.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

287 points

1799 points

526% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

37 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS

26 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

26 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

22 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

546 points

2833 points

418% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.76 points

311.05 points

537% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

3469 points

18049 points

420% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2446 points

9797 points

300% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4712 points

21004 points

345% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4293 points

21940 points

411% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2400 points

10316 points

329% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4552 points

23273 points

411% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4783 points

24865 points

419% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1058 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

863 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

6 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

80 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

260% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

64 W

290% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

8.46 Gigapixels/s

43.3 Gigapixels/s

411% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigatexels/s

173.2 Gigatexels/s

411% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

2304

499% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

499% 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

385th of 586

221st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 650 vs GeForce GTX 780 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 780 beats the GeForce GTX 650 in gaming performance.

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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 780 has significantly more memory with 6 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 780 at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 780 is faster than the GeForce GTX 650.