NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Price

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$ 98.48

$ 238.22 significantly less expensive

$ 336.70

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

287 points

5007 points

1644% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

116 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS

66 FPS

62 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

79 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

50 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

546 points

7843 points

1336% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.76 points

2173.35 points

4357% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

3469 points

94250 points

2616% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4712 points

85184 points

1707% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4293 points

66795 points

1455% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4552 points

84977 points

1766% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4783 points

79052 points

1552% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1058 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

1005 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

416 GB/s

420% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

64 W

150% significantly lower TDP

160 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

8.46 Gigapixels/s

98.88 Gigapixels/s

1068% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigatexels/s

222.5 Gigatexels/s

557% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

2304

499% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

350% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

396th of 600

102nd of 600

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

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 Quadro RTX 4000 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro RTX 4000 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 650 in gaming.

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 RTX 4000 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 650 has a significantly lower TDP at 64 W when compared to the Quadro RTX 4000 at 160 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 Quadro RTX 4000 over the GeForce GTX 650.