NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 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

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$ 879.85
$ 168.70
$ 711.15 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points
389% significantly better overall score
510 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS
39 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS
33 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points
396% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
881 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points
385% significantly higher Blender score
75.74 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points
379% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
6223 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points
293% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
3858 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points
313% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
8083 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points
431% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
7772 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points
348% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
3383 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points
332% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
7995 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points
362% 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

165 W
110 W
49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s
424% significantly higher pixel rate
14.85 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s
161% significantly higher texture rate
59.39 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048
166% significantly more shading units
768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128
100% significantly more texture mapping units
64

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
300% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th 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 980 vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 980 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 at 165 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 is better than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti.

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