NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5100M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K5100M 8 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

Identical

287 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

Identical

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

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4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.76 points

155.79 points

219% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2446 points

5204 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4712 points

7697 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2400 points

8639 points

259% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4552 points

11800 points

159% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1058 MHz

37% slightly higher core clock speed

771 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

8 GiB

300% 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

115.2 GB/s

44% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

64 W

56% significantly lower TDP

100 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

8.46 Gigapixels/s

24.67 Gigapixels/s

191% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigatexels/s

98.69 Gigatexels/s

191% 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

128

300% 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

385th of 586

384th 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 K5100M comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 650 beats the Quadro K5100M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro K5100M has significantly more memory with 8 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 Quadro K5100M at 100 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 650 over the Quadro K5100M.