NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 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

593 points

106% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

13 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS

11 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

10 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

9 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

546 points

1232 points

125% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.76 points

139.59 points

186% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

3469 points

11818 points

240% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4712 points

12257 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4293 points

10582 points

146% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4552 points

11578 points

154% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4783 points

9535 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1058 MHz

1097 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

80.19 GB/s

0.24% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

64 W

1% slightly lower TDP

65 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

8.46 Gigapixels/s

18.82 Gigapixels/s

122% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigatexels/s

47.04 Gigatexels/s

38% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

640

66% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

385th of 586

310th 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

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 650 vs GeForce GTX 960M specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 960M graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 650 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 960M 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 960M has significantly more memory with 4 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 slightly lower TDP at 64 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960M at 65 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 960M is better than the GeForce GTX 650.