NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 98.48
$ 489.54 significantly less expensive
$ 588.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

287 points
834 points
190% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS
18 FPS
12 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
13 FPS
8 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

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.76 points
148.23 points
204% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

3469 points
8558 points
146% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2446 points
5470 points
123% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4712 points
7115 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4293 points
10194 points
137% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2400 points
5648 points
135% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4552 points
11412 points
150% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4783 points
11138 points
132% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1058 MHz
49% significantly higher core clock speed
706 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
172.8 GB/s
115% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

64 W
90% significantly lower TDP
122 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

8.46 Gigapixels/s
22.59 Gigapixels/s
166% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigatexels/s
90.37 Gigatexels/s
166% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
1536
300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
128
300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
32
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

385th of 586
274th of 586

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0
11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.5

GeForce GTX 650 vs Quadro K5000 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro K5000 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 650 in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 650 has a significantly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro K5000 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 650 has a significantly lower TDP at 64 W when compared to the Quadro K5000 at 122 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro K5000 over the GeForce GTX 650.

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