NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 vs NVIDIA Quadro K3100M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K3100M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K3100M

Price

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$ 98.48

$ 2875.52 significantly less expensive

$ 2974.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

287 points

3% slightly better overall score

278 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

0 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

Identical

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.76 points

84.13 points

72% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

3469 points

4121 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2446 points

3037 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4712 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3517 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4293 points

4645 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2400 points

3739 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4552 points

6238 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4783 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3389 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1058 MHz

55% significantly higher core clock speed

680 MHz

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

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

80 GB/s

102.4 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

64 W

17% slightly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

8.46 Gigapixels/s

11.3 Gigapixels/s

33% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigatexels/s

45.18 Gigatexels/s

33% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

768

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

384th of 586

387th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 July

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 Quadro K3100M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 650 graphics card is better than the Quadro K3100M in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 650 has a significantly 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 Quadro K3100M has significantly more memory with 4 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 slightly lower TDP at 64 W when compared to the Quadro K3100M at 75 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 GTX 650 over the Quadro K3100M.