NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1 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

528 points

83% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

13 FPS

6 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

8 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

4 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4712 points

4950 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4552 points

4950 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

100% significantly more memory

1 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

384th of 586

321st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon HD 6000 Series

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 Radeon HD 6870 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon HD 6870 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 650 in gaming.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 650 has significantly more memory with 2 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon HD 6870 is faster than the GeForce GTX 650.