NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 vs NVIDIA Quadro K600

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K600 1 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K600

Price

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$ 98.48

$ 82.77

$ 15.71 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

287 points

341% significantly better overall score

65 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.76 points

252% significantly higher Blender score

13.85 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

3469 points

155% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

1356 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2446 points

130% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

1060 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4712 points

199% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

1572 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4293 points

144% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

1753 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2400 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

1284 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4552 points

151% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

1810 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4783 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

1928 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1058 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

876 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

100% significantly more memory

1 GiB

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

180% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.51 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

64 W

41 W

56% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

8.46 Gigapixels/s

141% significantly higher pixel rate

3.50 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigatexels/s

141% significantly higher texture rate

14.02 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

100% significantly more shading units

192

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

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

385th of 586

537th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 650 vs Quadro K600 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 650 graphics card is better than the Quadro K600 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 650 has significantly more memory with 2 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro K600 has a significantly lower TDP at 41 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 650 at 64 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 650 over the Quadro K600.