NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 369.00
$ 168.70
$ 200.30 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points
343% significantly better overall score
510 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
34 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
22 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3647 points
313% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
881 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

289.94 points
282% significantly higher Blender score
75.74 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

25908 points
316% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
6223 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points
252% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
3858 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points
260% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
8083 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points
338% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
7772 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points
301% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
3383 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
266% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
7995 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points
292% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
8246 points

Specifications

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
159% significantly higher memory bandwidth
86.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W
110 W
31% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s
344% significantly higher pixel rate
14.85 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s
106% significantly higher texture rate
59.39 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664
116% significantly more shading units
768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104
62% significantly more texture mapping units
64

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

56
250% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586
327th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 970 beats the GeForce GTX 650 Ti in gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 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 970 over the GeForce GTX 650 Ti.

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