NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250, 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

640 points

122% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

14 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS

10 FPS

6 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

8 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

546 points

1039 points

90% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.76 points

89.74 points

84% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

3469 points

9734 points

180% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4712 points

10197 points

116% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4293 points

9939 points

131% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4552 points

9326 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4783 points

9178 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1058 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

937 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

66% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

64 W

10 W

540% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

8.46 Gigapixels/s

16.61 Gigapixels/s

96% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigatexels/s

35% slightly higher texture rate

24.91 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

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

384th of 586

302nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

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

4.6

GeForce GTX 650 vs GeForce MX250 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce MX250 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 650 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 650 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

In addition, the GeForce MX250 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 650 at 64 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce MX250 over the GeForce GTX 650.