NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 98.48

$ 270.52 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

688% significantly better overall score

287 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points

567% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

546 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points

494% significantly higher Blender score

48.76 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points

646% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

3469 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

455% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

2446 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

518% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4712 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

694% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4293 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

466% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

2400 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

543% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4552 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

576% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4783 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1058 MHz

0.76% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

180% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

64 W

126% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

679% significantly higher pixel rate

8.46 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

261% significantly higher texture rate

33.86 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

333% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

224% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

385th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTX 650 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 650 in gaming.

In our comparison, 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 970 has significantly more memory with 4 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 GeForce GTX 970 at 145 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 is better than the GeForce GTX 650.